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It's a failing of the industry to treat nutrition as cause and effect when the body is clearly a complex system. Then again, it's hard to pick a complex system

by jamez1 10y ago

It's a failing of the industry to treat nutrition as cause and effect when the body is clearly a complex system. Then again, it's hard to pick a complex system that we do model properly.. the economy, the climate, the body, etc..

chipperyman573 10y ago
If humans were removed from the equation, we could accurately model the economy and climate (to a reasonable degree). Human randomness adds too much entropy to the system to accurately model it.
- zaphar 10y ago
  That is a claim I'm not sure I believe. Why do you think removing Humans would reduce the complexity sufficiently to model the weather which any usable accuracy?
- ncallaway 10y ago
  The climate is perfectly chaotic without human involvement. Much the same way that the three body problem is chaotic whether there are people involved or not.
  - jackmott 10y ago
    the climate is a lot less chaotic than weather, and aspects of it are not so hard to model correctly. For instance the IPCC far projections for global average temp from 1990 have been very good.
    - ncallaway 10y ago
      Apologies. You're correct. I should have said that weather is chaotic.
jamez1 10y ago
Perhaps I need to clarify, these systems are chaotic hence the difficulty in modelling them, I didn't mean to imply anything political. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system