Born to do Math 105 – Human Beings as Mathematical Structures (2)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/01/22
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Rick Rosner: …Your choices are fairly simple. It is either open or closed. That is still only one molecule out of basically trillions in your body. It is the combination of trillions working together based on systems that have evolved over 4 billion years; that makes thems sense complicated and mathematical.
But when you get down to it, it is still mathy. When we get into the era of big data, humans can only understand things up to a certain amount of information. But as we build bigger and bigger information understanding structures, they will understand things that we can only understand in an indirect way.
We only understand things in an approximate way. Bigger information processing entities will be able to understand things better. I read the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. One of the chapters is that humans don’t understand anything.
I guess they did an experiment asking people if they understand how zippers work. Most said, “Yes!” But then they tried to explain, most failed. I think data entities of the future will understand things that we understand only half-assedly in much greater depth.
They will have a much greater understanding and appreciation of the mathiness of the messiness of the human body, where we can only understand it in little bits.
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