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David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science

COMPLEXITY

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The Incommensurability of Different Fields of Knowledge

There's a question about the incommensurability of different fields of knowledge with respect to say the science is in the arts. I'm curious just how divergent you think an aesthetic or an empirical inquiry really are from one another and how you see those differences? Yeah. You can actually think about the arts as being that domain of experience which are incompressible. There are so many specific elements in them, so much idiosyncrasy, so much individual expression that they don't lend themselves to compression. So complexity actually provides a partial answer to why these domains of inquiry appear to be incommensurable. But they're not. It's just that they live on this spectrum of the

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