Comment by TeMPOraL
2 years ago
> Things are supposed to get less complicated as you get smaller, not more complicated!
They're not. In general, once you take a lot of little things to make a big thing, you may notice a bunch of emergent properties, but one of the major emergent property is that... all the variability cancels out, or averages to a simple quantity. See e.g. all the complex dancing of great many particles making up everyday objects, that all average to a simple scalar number we call "temperature".
As I understand it, many "laws" in science, such as Ohm's law, also emerge from this sort of "neatness at scale".
That doesn't happen for everything. Biology is an obvious counterexample.
Or is it? Biology at micro-scale seems much more complicated than at macro-scale. It has this thermodynamics quality to it.