11CELLULAR AUTOMATA
I like to put a humidifier and a dehumidifier in a room and just let them fight it out.—Steven Wright
Math equations are a very powerful tool for modeling things we can measure; equations even got us to the moon, after all. But as powerful as they are, equations are of limited use in the biological and social sciences because organisms don’t grow according to equations.
Organisms grow in an environment among many other organisms and spend their day performing innumerable interactions. That web of interactions determines how something will grow, and equations often can’t capture this complicated relationship. Equations can help ...
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