GabrielDuquette comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Alejandro1 03 August 2012 03:33PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2012 06:09:52PM 23 points [-]

Take, say, physics, which restricts itself to extremely simple questions. If a molecule becomes too complex, they hand it over to the chemists. If it becomes too complex for them, they hand it to biologists. And if the system is too complex for them, they hand it to psychologists ... and so on until it ends up in the hands of historians or novelists.

Noam Chomsky

Comment author: [deleted] 05 August 2012 01:00:33AM 4 points [-]
Comment author: David_Gerard 04 August 2012 07:25:08PM 3 points [-]

Ballard does note later in the same essay "Neurology is a branch of fiction."

Comment author: arundelo 04 August 2012 07:46:23PM 11 points [-]

I am a strange loop and so can you!