I think there's a really interesting topic here. What does it mean to understand? Many phenomena that humans can work with in practice are beyond individual und

I think there's a really interesting topic here. What does it mean to understand? Many phenomena that humans can work with in practice are beyond individual understanding. For instance, I doubt any single human fully groks the design and manufacture of modern CPUs, for instance, there are mathematical proofs that can only be verified by machine, etc. We frequently say we understand some physical phenomenon when we have math that explains it. But complex systems seem difficult to describe in less than a simulation and all of those numeric details can't fit in one human head. I suspect that as we explore complex phenomena like brains, ecosystems, economies and weather systems, that we'll have to get used to a 'proxy' understanding where we can work with them only through the use of models that don't quite fit in human brains.