These complexity models put my brain into a pretzel - and that's cool! Been reading Schrodinger's What is Life? - his thesis trying to bridge Quantum physics and Biology - and many ideas seem to hold up - amazing considering he wrote the first section in the mid 1940s before genes - DNA were actually identified via x-ray photographs by Rosalind Franklin in London in the 1950s and stolen by Watson the weasel (& Crick). C'est la vie. Interestingly - one would think this physics-biology synthesis study would have stimulated a inter-disciplinary trend in Academia which only really started very recently half a century later - why? Finally-My point is that to truly create a full on close to physical reality hyper-complexity model will be impossible until quantum computing is a real thing. A great visual metaphor for non-linear quantum computing vs linear binary digital computing is the difference between a mouse (digital) going through a maze vs having a birds eye view from above (quantum) - thus taking in most of the information all at once. Yet I say most because one must take into account so many complex 'unseen' systems from the micro to macro levels. Gravity and ongoing gravity waves, strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetic field, flying neutrinos, photons, electrons, and now the mysterious Dark Energy and Matter that make up most of the universe and that we know next to nothing about! How can a realistic model of our reality be made when the you don't even know anything about what makes up 95% of the universe? Much work to do!
These complexity models put my brain into a pretzel - and that's cool! Been reading Schrodinger's What is Life? - his thesis trying to bridge Quantum physics and Biology - and many ideas seem to hold up - amazing considering he wrote the first section in the mid 1940s before genes - DNA were actually identified via x-ray photographs by Rosalind Franklin in London in the 1950s and stolen by Watson the weasel (& Crick). C'est la vie. Interestingly - one would think this physics-biology synthesis study would have stimulated a inter-disciplinary trend in Academia which only really started very recently half a century later - why? Finally-My point is that to truly create a full on close to physical reality hyper-complexity model will be impossible until quantum computing is a real thing. A great visual metaphor for non-linear quantum computing vs linear binary digital computing is the difference between a mouse (digital) going through a maze vs having a birds eye view from above (quantum) - thus taking in most of the information all at once. Yet I say most because one must take into account so many complex 'unseen' systems from the micro to macro levels. Gravity and ongoing gravity waves, strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetic field, flying neutrinos, photons, electrons, and now the mysterious Dark Energy and Matter that make up most of the universe and that we know next to nothing about! How can a realistic model of our reality be made when the you don't even know anything about what makes up 95% of the universe? Much work to do!