There are two approaches to this type of problem, bottom-up and top-down: Bottom-up is the preferred solution because you can derive everything from earlier pr

There are two approaches to this type of problem, bottom-up and top-down: Bottom-up is the preferred solution because you can derive everything from earlier principles, math is always bottoms up. Physics tries to be but occasionally fails. Top-down is investigatory, you have something that exists and you want to understand it. Chemistry, biology, and genetics are excellent examples of systems that we can't derive from first principles that we've done well with using the top-down approach. Charting the space of the meta-problem (this config --> this behavior) is a valuable first step in better understanding these structures even if we can never derive their behavior.