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Re:Complexity Explained by kaba0 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:40PM (#26096361)
I wrote an explicit example for a case where your analysis doesn’t seem to be correct, but you didn’t resolve the issue — temperature makes new observations possible that were not possible before and it is not tied to the human reasoning (also, it is only but one example, perhaps not even the best).
Re:Complexity Explained by hntrader on Friday February 12, 2021 @07:48PM (#26120417)
I don't know if the assertion you made is true, ie that an omniscient entity can't explain everything there is to know about temperature by looking at the simple movement of atoms. What's the basis for this? I know you followed that up with a rationale, but I didn't really follow. Just because this abstraction (temperature) allows us to come to conclusions and inferences about state and state changes doesn't mean that there's anything real about the abstraction aside from the cognitive structure in our brains that helps us to process the world around us effectively.