This discussion, complex world vs simple rules, is very old and goes back to Plato and Aristotle. Plato explained our ability to recognize each and every A: All concrete examples partake,in varying degrees, in the ideal A. As these ideals do not exist in the world of the senses, he postulated some kind of hyperreality, the world of ideas, where they exist in timeless perfection. Our souls come from there to this world, and all recognition is re-cognition. Of course. this stuff is hard to swallow for a programmer trying to build some damned machine. A good... (read more)
This discussion, complex world vs simple rules, is very old and goes back to Plato and Aristotle. Plato explained our ability to recognize each and every A: All concrete examples partake,in varying degrees, in the ideal A. As these ideals do not exist in the world of the senses, he postulated some kind of hyperreality, the world of ideas, where they exist in timeless perfection. Our souls come from there to this world, and all recognition is re-cognition. Of course. this stuff is hard to swallow for a programmer trying to build some damned machine. A good... (read more)