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It’s strange they are all engineering problems.
by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 21d ago
It’s strange they are all engineering problems.
- kolinko 21d agoWhat else?
- analog31 21d agoIn a sense all experimental science has an element of engineering. For instance the first problem, "the origins of life" is framed to require an experiment to show that any proposed mechanism actually works.
- ClaraForm 21d agoRight? Where's the substrates of consciousness, or the actual solutions for protein/rna folding, or the requirements for evolution?
- anon48293 21d agoSubstrates of consciousness? You mean the neural correlates of consciousness which we already have?
- randomImmigrant 20d agoSubstrates of consciousness… I think they don’t have it here because they can’t come up with an answer a bunch of AI models will find. Certainly a Millenium problem for biology if there ever was one.
- HarHarVeryFunny 21d agoWhat would be your idea of a biology problem that isn't an "engineering" one? It seems that understanding biology could be characterized as trying to figure out "how did nature engineer this". For that matter isn't all of science this way?
- dnautics 21d agoChemiosmotic effect
- HarHarVeryFunny 21d agoWhat aspect of that is an unsolved problem, and one that feels more fundamental rather than engineering / in need of explanation ?
- dnautics 21d agoIts not unsolved. It's very solved. It was not an engineering question.
- HarHarVeryFunny 21d agoIt seems that physics -> chemistry -> biology is a layering of abstractions and/or emergent phenomena, and any explanations of mechanics at these higher levels is more along the lines of "how was this built from these lego blocks" rather than being some more fundamental discovery. You keep on making assertions - perhaps you could back it up with some explanation of why you regard this as a more fundamental discovery (or however you would like to characterize it)?
- dnautics 20d ago"how was this built from these lego blocks" That is not engineering. Nobody would call astronomy or cosmology engineering and it is very much the study of "how the universe is built from some basic building blocks. Don't assign a reductive meaning to engineering that is so encompassing that everything everywhere is engineering, else you render "engineering" a meaningless concept