Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in...
by fpoling on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:09PM
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Does the solution to an equation exist before one stated the equation? Does a particular phrase exist before one has written it? Does it continue to exist after all its copies were erased? And even if one answers positively to such questions based on a belief (it is not provable), like "yes, they always exist", one has to define what "always" means.
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in...
by drdeca on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:34PM
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Their existence is not at all dependent on such things. (Note that I didn’t use the word “always”.)
If the answer to a question of “Why [...]_1?” would be “Because there is a [...]_2 such that [...]_3 .”, then there is such a [...]_2 such that [...]_3 . (Possible exception : if “because you asked that question” would be part of the answer.)