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by bgruber 3718 days ago
it may not be possible to conceptualize all parts of a system simultaneously but that doesn't mean nobody can fully understand the system. A layer of abstraction isn't about not having to understand what's beneath it; it's a tool to aid in understanding.
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No, i literally mean there's too much information involved to review in a human lifetime. You can at one point understand any part of it, but a human life is too short to at one point understand every part of it.