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The patterns will be understood, by machines in whole and by people in part. To think it’s impossible seems ... religious
by paulsutter 7y ago
The patterns will be understood, by machines in whole and by people in part. To think it’s impossible seems ... religious
- mvcalder 7y agoHuh, From where I sit, to think it's possible seems ... religous. To each his own I guess.
- stevenhuang 7y agoBut to think it won't _ever_ be possible? After a thousand years of research?
- hprotagonist 7y agoin a thousand years, of course, the things we're researching will be a thousand years differently evolved. My point, mostly, is that any "law" of biology i've ever encountered has an "except sometimes when ..." clause. I do not expect that to change; biology is best described in the language of probability, and evolution (if i may anthropomorphize it so without peril) is very good at ruthlessly exploiting edge cases.
- barkingcat 7y agoThat's not a difficult thing to imagine at all! Many mathematical problems have been unsolved in spite of a few thousands years of research! And math isn't nearly as weird as biological systems!
- barkingcat 7y agoirrationality is not religiosity. You can calculate digits of Pi, but can't understand why Pi is the way it is ... Do you call the assumption that humans and computers can never understand why Pi is the way it is, and that you cannot extract understandable patterns from Pi (or any irrational number for that matter) a religious idea?
- garmaine 7y agoUh, you got it backwards mate. I understand perfectly well what pi is, even though I will never calculate every digit.