Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark...
by andbberger on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:48PM
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That's not true. The comparison to biology is very literal here. We simply do not have the tools to really understand complex systems.
This is where our physics fails us. We're great at predicting the behavior of systems with a small number of interacting degrees of freedom. But for systems with a huge number of interacting degrees of freedom (everything around you) we're hooped - the math is intractable to existing techniques. New approaches are required.
There _are_ some overarching principles for complex systems (namely self-organization). But they have not been well-developed.
This is where our physics fails us. We're great at predicting the behavior of systems with a small number of interacting degrees of freedom. But for systems with a huge number of interacting degrees of freedom (everything around you) we're hooped - the math is intractable to existing techniques. New approaches are required.
There _are_ some overarching principles for complex systems (namely self-organization). But they have not been well-developed.