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David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science

COMPLEXITY

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The Role of the Engineer in the Ecology of Social Functions

The great engineers combine the both, right? They create worlds which they then theorise about. Great scientists are artists because they spend most of their time creating worlds that don't exist to demolish them. And so it's interesting, in the end, at the limits there are distinctions that are worth making. But the meta theory that allows you to understand them as living on this kind of ontological continuum is useful for breaking down barriers.

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