>Well, by the same logic, we could argue that we don't understand cars Or, by similar logic, that we don't understand how the planets of the solar system inter

>Well, by the same logic, we could argue that we don't understand cars Or, by similar logic, that we don't understand how the planets of the solar system interact. It seems that in the history of science, initial views of complex things as chaotic got gradually replaced with better abstractions. As in, the word 'planet' means 'wanderer', then there were epicycles, perfect circles, elipses... I'm not a biologist, but maybe the current abstractions and models of cells are waiting for their Newtons and Mendeleevs to figure out the right models.