The Circle That Never Ends: Can Complexity Be Made Simple?

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that which we seek.” It is really the question “why is it so hard to understand the world around us” that should be asked, but that is the end of the story, not the beginning. The initial premise also leads to another, related, set of premises involving the existence of that world and our ability to ever know it completely, whatever “completely” might mean in this context. This is already a large problem. Here is why. As this is being written a number of things are happening. One possibility is that the author is merely stating the obvious. If that is true then no one