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Comment on Ask HN: Why don't we know everything there is to know about the human body?

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So many things wrong with your question it is hard to know where to start without trolling your aragance.

That you think "yet ... are making strides?" What, since yesterday? And how well do you really think those things are doing? HN complains every day over their lack of maturity and how these may dead end long before AGI.

There you say "seems to be". Seems? Throwing words like "finite" around as though that's helpful. And who is "we" anyhow? We reject thousands of years of eastern (and some western) development outright as our PRIMITIVE modern science hasn't adequately reduced for purposeful observation or explanation.

In short, life technologies are far beyond modern comprehension due to their exponential complexity. We're so satisfied with what we call technology, yet we've really only been making any sort of progress for less than a hundred years.

I say exponential complexity as systems change their behavior based on the interference of external factors. Add a new element (chemical, stress, an exogenous, etc.) and the system complexity grows in ways previously inconceivable.

We don't fully understand light, how can we fully understand the most ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY KNOWN IN EXISTENCE, the human being.

What we know is miniscule and just beginning.

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