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Originally Posted by renormalised
Yes, but you have to be careful, as you have said.
Sometime scientist can over analyse and be too cautious.
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This is an interesting topic (and off-topic, also .. its Ok .. I started the thread)…
The scientific approach calls for breaking a problem down into its constituent components, to look for the simplest building blocks for which we understand the behaviours of. When one does this, one tends to lose track of the big picture.
Recently, this earthquake prediction business that I'm on about, has reminded me of the Complexity/Chaos approach to complex systems which normally appear meanlinglessness in their constituent forms.
Perhaps we need more of these kinds of approaches to complex problems?
Cheers