Hmm, it seems that I do not grok synergism, as well… Never could convince myself that a ‘synergistic’ outcome is ‘more than the sum’ as opposed to ‘very different from the sum’ - that is, I can imagine some chemical catalyst system which processes substrate faster than the combined rates of its subsystems, but… In the kind of biology to which I am used, the ‘synergistic’ outcome is usually different from the theoretical ‘sum’ in more ways than one, and the ‘sum’ might not exist...
I mean, it’s hard for me to see why two steps of randomness are more random than one. Yet your words are, somehow, an answer… The conclusion is probably that I have zero knowledge.
Hmm, it seems that I do not grok synergism, as well… Never could convince myself that a ‘synergistic’ outcome is ‘more than the sum’ as opposed to ‘very different from the sum’ - that is, I can imagine some chemical catalyst system which processes substrate faster than the combined rates of its subsystems, but… In the kind of biology to which I am used, the ‘synergistic’ outcome is usually different from the theoretical ‘sum’ in more ways than one, and the ‘sum’ might not exist...
I mean, it’s hard for me to see why two steps of randomness are more random than one. Yet your words are, somehow, an answer… The conclusion is probably that I have zero knowledge.