Their properties can hardly be predicted from the sum of their parts. That’s not true. We know when water boils, we know tension laws, we know a ton to predict

Their properties can hardly be predicted from the sum of their parts. That’s not true. We know when water boils, we know tension laws, we know a ton to predict and define the interactions. We know how to add carbon to iron, we know how make glass withstand huge loads. We know material limits because we rely on those material limits to build our world. We choose to ignore those limits, the outcomes, the effects, climate change, earth is round, smoking is bad for you, etc. If we wanted to know that chemical reaction takes place in your body that makes you feel boredom, I am sure we could, we figured out cocaine and pain killers, there is just no profit in making a boredom pill. The world is not as romantic as poets make it out to be. Sun goes up sun goes down never a miscommunication. Complex, sure.