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> The theory will eventually catch up Maybe... but the emergent behavior in a complicated system (and these networks are only getting more complicated, not les
by kcorbitt 10y ago
> The theory will eventually catch up
Maybe... but the emergent behavior in a complicated system (and these networks are only getting more complicated, not less) is likely to quickly become more complex than the human mind can reasonably be expected to understand, given any amount of time.
We actually know a lot less about biology, for example, than your typical "biology 101" course would lead you to believe. It's pretty cool that we figured out how DNA translates into proteins, but actually figuring out how a cell decides which DNA to express at any given time, much less what any arbitrary protein actually does, takes you right back into guess-and-check territory. There are heuristics you can use to eliminate some guesses more quickly than others, but we're so far away from a unified explanatory theory of biology that I'm doubtful one will ever be developed.
- jszymborski 10y agoI mean, that's the nature of empirical sciences. You establish a model that fits observations you've made, but inevitably their is some chaotic, sometimes imperceptible noise that gets averaged out that represents some further level of complexity. I wouldn't argue that it means we don't know much, in the end you can argue we don't know anything because all empirical sciences are beholden to the belief of abstractions that can be attributed to some imperceptible abstraction until you (don't) reach the bottom of the stack of turtles.
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