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I'll write that. So I'll refrain from doing that. So, you know, it took three days, but we finally

got to biology, which I think, as you'll see,

is the messiest of the three sciences that we're going to talk about.

And for me, the most interesting, obviously.

And it's interesting.

I think when we talked about physics in particular, and chemistry to some

extent, there's this idea that we have this really good, the mathematical relationships. We know

really well, but do the entities exist, do the bonds exist? And I think in my own, sort of the

opposite, we're pretty sure that bacteria exists, pretty sure you all exist, but what are the mathematical

relationship? How do I predict how you or how bacteria and so forth is going to respond?

And that's where a lot of the uncertainty is. So the talk, I'm going to focus on two aspects

of uncertainty. And the first is the ability to predict and the

limitations of prediction of what an organism is going to do so hey here's the

initial state that we find the organism in how do we predict what it might do

given these conditions and what are the limitations to? And I think that they're severely limited,

and that there's a very high degree uncertainty

that will never be held overcombe.

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