Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?
This seems to be a problem of constructing approximate mental models to explain &quot;emergent&quot; properties of complex systems composed of interacting simple elements (such as atoms). I would like to think that such explanations aren&#x27;t always necessary, so long as a computer simulation of the simpler (and well understood) elements can reproduce the emergent behavior. It seems to be a limitation of human working memory rather than some theoretical limit to comprehension.