The more you know, the messier and less narrative the picture gets. This explains journalism
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Once in a while someone in possession of tons of facts manages to tell a tidy story (Darwin).
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Have you read Tyler Cowens story :) on this subject? http://lesswrong.com/lw/8w1/transcript_tyler_cowen_on_stories/ … In this vein
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that's great - I like how he sets up narrative and mess as opposing forces (though I think mess = multiple overlapping narratives)
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@Meaningness I like this thread, but Thermo is _all about_ clear high level properties emerging in cmplx systems. -
Yes… but it’s essentially the only case of an elegant & predictive emergence. (Others?)
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Still tons of emergent behavior w/ compact description in non-eq many-body systems
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general point of thread seems correct, but precise sort of "mess" is important
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rare cases like atoms, molecules, and cells?
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Bacteria are already messy—they do whatever they like.
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