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Give me an example of an irreducibly complex thing :)

• Estragon 16y ago
  You.
  • getonit 16y ago
    Fail, please refer to Evolution.
    • Symmetry 16y ago
      Evolution is just a way of explaining how someone came to be, not how they work. Being a good materialist I do think that people are reducible, but we certainly haven't been able to figure all of the steps out yet.
• deleted 16y ago
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• ovi256 16y ago
  * The Belgian question. * Quantum mechanics. * The sovereign debt problem.
• pwhelan 16y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Response_of_the_scientific_community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Response... Also, I would think that exptime-complete problems we could call irreducibly complex :) My first thoughts strayed to computability theory though.
  • thunk 16y ago
    Oh yeah, that's why the phrase "irreducibly complex" popped into my mind. Whoops. Just to be clear, I definitely wasn't referring to the intelligent design argument. I meant the phrase strictly in the "make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler" sense. The simplest possible correct explanation of some things is still extremely complicated.
• khafra 16y ago
  Next month's weather.
• kylemathews 16y ago
  Why people hate.