The Biggest Gap in Science: Complexity

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  @SabineHossenfelder · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @smuecke · 2 years ago

  This comment emerges from quantum fluctuations shortly after the Big Bang.

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  @TransdermalCelebrate · 2 years ago

  The more I listen to you, the more my brain draws to the complexity of your sense of humour, I’m an old bugger, so just ignore me 😄👍

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  @njan5107 · 2 years ago

  This comment was brought to you by emergent properties of a few billion cells.

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  @csours · 2 years ago

  A baby is not a network, but a baby contains many many many networks

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  @brainxyz · 2 years ago

  Consciousness is also more prominent at the edge of uncertainty. Predictable or repeated events lowers the brain activity, as we have measured using fMRI (A phenomenon called &quot;Repetition Suppression&quot;). We can also deduce that subjectively e.g we become sleepy (&amp; bored) when watching very predictable events that has no surprises.

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  @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC · 2 years ago (edited)

  A slab of marble and Michaelangelo&apos;s sculpture, &quot;The Pieta,&quot; are both made of the exact same material, but it would be a <b>gross mischaracterization of reality</b> to argue there is no difference in their overall complexity.

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  @nyrdybyrd1702 · 2 years ago (edited)

  🥳 Yay, a twentyish minute video!

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  @yakovdan · 2 years ago

  I think kolmogorov complexity didnt get a fair shake. Yes, the standard model describes rocks, clocks and babies equally, but the <b>length</b> of this description is not the same, because there are more particles arranged spatially and temporally in a greater amount of ways, thus requiring a longer program leading to higher kolmogorov complexity

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  @pmbrig · 2 years ago

  Two quotes to mull over, re complexity:<br>1) On his death bed, Heisenberg is reported to have said, &quot;When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.&quot;<br>2) &quot;If the universe were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple-minded to understand it.&quot; [source unknown]

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  @hndutube · 2 years ago

  „And the thing moves and squiggles and squeaks.“ best sentence ever.

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  @ulob · 2 years ago

  &quot;Lines connected by dots&quot; I see what you did there 😂

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