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I would phrase that the humanity understanding of the world has always been just behind its complexity. As we advance in our understanding of the world, world’s
by soneca 6y ago
I would phrase that the humanity understanding of the world has always been just behind its complexity. As we advance in our understanding of the world, world’s complexity advances a bit more.
- chillwaves 6y agoThat sounds more like a limit in humanity's ability to understand than a constraint on the complexity of the world.
- aeternum 6y agoI would argue that the complexity of the world itself is not changing all that much. Instead, as the sphere of human knowledge grows, our awareness of the area just outside that sphere becomes both larger and more obvious. The general complexity of the universe exists regardless of how much humans understand it. (probably)