Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8401213 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 2013 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
According to some rough calculations, the silicon human might comprise the mathematical descriptions of around 105 interactions. This is not a small number, but taking into account the exponentially increase of computational power, it should not prove to be our principal limitation. The bigger challenges will be located in different areas. For example they may be related to the observer effect - the limitation to measuring a system's component properties without affecting the system. Another obstacle may be hidden in the tradition of "shaving away" all “unnecessary” assumptions (the so-called Occam's razor) that, in fact, reflects the intention to model the system as simply as possible and thus to deem the emergence to be less strong than it possibly is. We argue here that that Occam's razor should be replaced with the law of completeness.
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