Episode
David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
COMPLEXITY · Oct 14, 2020 · 52 min
On the one hand, we have math: a world of forms and patterns, a priori logic, timeless and consistent. On the other, we have physics: messy and embodied interactions, context-dependent and contingent on a changing world. And yet, many people get the two confused, including physicists and mathematicians. Where the two meet, and the nature of the boundary between them, is a matter of debate — one…