This makes the problem seem like it is technical not ontological...i.e. what is need is greater computing power. I think there are many ways of grasping what happens in organisms beside computer simulation...compassion for example. This reminds me somewhat of Ptolemy using Platonic Solids to explain why the universe (the heavens) was not a pyramid.
Thank you for communicating. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:36 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Mathematics and Life - Comments on Gregory Chaitin Lectures Sweden 2005 Ann Racuya-Robbins wrote: > > Why does a law have to be simpler? What is simpler? I suppose that is > the reason to be for complexity science that life appears to more > likely move from simpler to more complex. > The most powerful computers in the world can only simulate microseconds of the many body physics and electrostatics of a million atoms, which is just a small part of a single cell. If there is no compression, or simplification, there is no hope of grasping what happens in organisms. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
