This is a great article, but I wish it would have really dealt with the idea of complexity.
Nature is not ‘unintelligible’ it is ‘complicated’ because of the large number of discrete interactive constitutive units.
In fact, if you plot # of constitutive quarks/atoms being worked with versus uncertainty, you see an interesting layout of the sciences. e.g. take this plot by xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/435/ ) and think about how much matter is under observation (i.e. increasing complexity to the left). Somewhere on the left would be climate in this example (as in the article).
Nature is not ‘unintelligible’ it is ‘complicated’ because of the large number of discrete interactive constitutive units.
In fact, if you plot # of constitutive quarks/atoms being worked with versus uncertainty, you see an interesting layout of the sciences. e.g. take this plot by xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/435/ ) and think about how much matter is under observation (i.e. increasing complexity to the left). Somewhere on the left would be climate in this example (as in the article).