Lightbulb moment

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I like working with big, messy systems with lots of variables. From where I stand now, that's the most prominent thread connecting what I've enjoyed about studying STEM fields.

It makes me wonder whether I wouldn't be better off in a field that's generally acknowledged to be difficult to handle with reductionistic methods. (Classic example being the life sciences - if you take a creature apart to try to figure out how it works, it very quickly stops working.)

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[polydad]

>...if you take a creature apart to try to figure out how it works, it
>very quickly stops working.)

Sort of the point of so doing, no?

Sounds like you want to be in either programming or a neurology-related field -- which latter is a subset of the former if you think about it right. *Studying* brains is by definition recursive -- or if it's not, please let me know what you're thinking that with.

best,

Joel