What @nntaleb points out here is still lost on many. As soon as you move from linear to nonlinear, all bets are off. We still don‘t understand much beyond linear systems. Paul Allen understood this as well (see his essay “The Singularity isn‘t near”).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbSmTGJhEA …
Yeah, I've had some similar thoughts. Harris is seriously flawed when he parses religion solely as a way to understand the material universe (the 'what'), rather than the 'how' or the 'why'. It's the self-limiting part of the empirical physicalist doctrine.

