On Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 7:41:43 PM UTC-5, Pierz wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 8:58:49 PM UTC+10, telmo wrote: >> >> >> I have the utmost respect and interest in Physics, but I think that >> contemporary physicists suffer from the problem of having convinced >> themselves that their field, and their filed alone, can produce "the >> correct lens". Most scientific fields have a lot to learn from Physics when >> it comes to rigor, but at the same time physicists underestimate how much >> easier it is to achieve rigor when you are dealing with very low levels of >> complexity (as compared to Biology, Psychology, Sociology and so on). >> > > Yes exactly. It really needs to be pointed out that we can only barely > calculate the states of the simplest atoms, using all the supercomputers > available to us! Yet the successful analysis of these isolated, microscopic > physical systems is supposed to convince us that we understand all of > physical reality "in principle"? This laughable idea that we live in a > computer simulation of some advanced civilization - when we can't even > simulate a single fucking oxygen atom?! We sure are clever apes, but it's > even more impressive how impressed we are with ourselves. > >> >>
Wow. Both of these are wonderfully stated! @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/44ecb60f-3253-48c4-847b-473ee0538754%40googlegroups.com.
