Admitting to the indescribable is one facet of a new dark age: an admission that the human mind has limits to what it can conceptualise. But not all problems in the sciences can be overcome even by the application of computation, however sympathetic. As more-complex solutions are brought to bear on ever more complex problems, we risk even-greater systemic problems being overlooked. Just as the accelerating progress of Moore’s law locked computation into a particular pathway, necessitating certain architecture and hardware, so the choice of these tools fundamentally shapes the way we can
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