The Complexity of Reality
Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα – All I know is that I know nothing – Socrates
Almost 25 centuries after the birth of Socrates, never has this statement been more true. Although we’ve achieved some remarkable things, our actual understanding of reality is still very far behind of the little we can actually do with it. The New Scientist magazine published earlier this year a small list that shows that really, the more we know, the more we must realize we know nothing (or very little).
Not that this should be discouraging – quite the opposite. We are in fact living in interesting times, and I believe that we are in the middle of an explosion of the understanding of reality and of what we can do with it. Whether this will lead to the singularity or not is a different (and interesting) discussion.
