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Have you ever faced a problem or system so complex, that you tried to understand and gave up in frustration? Do you think there are systems out there completely
by aogaili 6y ago
Have you ever faced a problem or system so complex, that you tried to understand and gave up in frustration? Do you think there are systems out there completely beyond humanity grasp? that we won't even have an entry point to reason about them?
- hliyan 6y agoI've learned to think of understanding as a form of compression. The more recurring patterns there are in a system, the better we can understand them. The fewer such recurring patterns in a system, the harder it is to understand them. Fortunately for us, a lot of things in nature are recurrent.
- beaconstudios 6y agoAnd if you want to understand why they are recurrent, then you'll find the commonality in the shape of the system's components' causality - how they influence each other, often in loops. These are the subject of control theory, cybernetics (also a systems science), and systems dynamics (if you like maths).