[mjburgess]

Almost all of reality isnt day-to-day life --- indeed what that describes is, in many ways, exactly the sort of illusions of stability that admit cute mathematical analysis.

You're weighting parts of reality by their relevance to a us at a particular place and time -- without such prejudice you find that very little admits of this sort of cute mathematical description.

And that which does is now pretty exhausted as far as research goes. Describing beds is not a pressing theoretical quesiton

Describing organic systems, say is -- chaotic organic development across trillions of cells. There are no SHOs there

[hughesjj]

Really? What about the Krebs cycle?

[mjburgess]

There is no first order taylor series expansion of the krebs cycle -- indeed not.

As soon as you have three of anythign physics, as applied math, breaks down