Comment by mportela
9 hours ago
Agreed. IIRC the mechanism for anesthesia in unknown to this day. In fact, medicine as a whole is very pragmatic and time and time again prefers using techniques with unknown mechanisms but proven results than waiting for a reasonable scientific explanation of what’s going on.
As logic would dictate--particularly for people who aren't the highest IQ guy on the planet.
Half of people are below average! They understand nothing at the level that Tao means. Literally nothing.
Perhaps I'm in the lower half but I do not understand what point you're trying to make. Are you saying that as some higher plane of understanding Tao is actually correct? My thinking is that a simple counterexample would be sufficient - i.e. are there medications that people use for which the mechanism is not understood? There are many such examples as others have given in this thread.
Logic would dictate that medicine should be pragmatic and accept working cures that aren't understood.
If people had to understand everything that worked, most people could not really engage with anything.
If the requirement is just that one human, somewhere, understand it--how is that different from AI?
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