This is exactly how the physicists felt at the dawn of quantum physics - the loss of meaningful human inquiry to blindly effective statistics. Sobering stuff…

This is exactly how the physicists felt at the dawn of quantum physics - the loss of meaningful human inquiry to blindly effective statistics. Sobering stuff… Personally, I’m convinced that human reason is less pure than we think it to be, and that the move to large mathematical models might just be formalizing a lack-of-control that was always there. But that’s less of a philosophy of science discussion and more of a cognitive science one