Stephen Wolfram

All I care about is this overall thing.

And that's sort of one aspect.

And we see that in lots of different... Again, it's the same story over and over again, that there's a lot of detail in the world, but what we are extracting from it is something, a sort of a thin summary of that detail.

Sure.

That there's ambiguity.

Right, right, you don't know.

It could be the case.

You're just measuring the aggregate impacts of these molecules, but there is some tiny, tiny probability that these molecules will arrange themselves in some really funky way, and that just measuring that average isn't going to be the main point.

By the way, an awful lot of science

is very confused about this because you look at papers and people are really keen.

They draw this curve and they have these bars on the curve and things.

It's just this curve.

And it's this one thing.

And it's supposed to represent some system that has all kinds of details in it.

And this is a way that lots of science has gotten wrong.

Because people say, I remember years ago, I was studying snowflake growth.

You know, you have a snowflake and it's growing.

It has all these arms.

It's doing complicated things.

But there was a literature on this stuff.