Titanic physics experiments might be an extreme case, but they are, all
the same, illustrations of a universal truth: across the domains of
science, the most telling empirical evidence is exasperatingly hard to
uncover. Tracking the ways in which genes drive biological development –
as they collectively assemble a body with all its limbs, tentacles, eyes
and antennae in the correct places – means following the course of a
myriad complex chemical reactions at the molecular level. Understanding
how the firing of neurons gives rise to sensation, behaviour and thought
means unravelling a neural network containing, in the case of the human
brain, perhaps100 trillionsynapses (and synapses might not be the only
intercellular bridges relevant to cognitive functioning). Modelling an
economy or the global climate requires predicting the behaviour of a
vast number of interwoven processes at many different level
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