I personally can’t imagine anything fundamentally complicated. I guess I could imagine tho that something might be a black box with complicated behavior, i.e. something complicated but with no parts that could be analyzed separately
(because we can’t open the box for whatever reason). But if this something was lawful, we could still analyze the various components of the laws that governed its behavior, e.g. “hmmm … when we isolate the influence of x, the measurement of the output of the black box seems to correspond roughly to an exponential function of the measurement of x …”.
I don’t think lawful and reducible are entirely (or even a little) independent. Really, I’m struggling to think of an example where ‘lawful’ doesn’t mean ‘reducible’.
I personally can’t imagine anything fundamentally complicated. I guess I could imagine tho that something might be a black box with complicated behavior, i.e. something complicated but with no parts that could be analyzed separately (because we can’t open the box for whatever reason). But if this something was lawful, we could still analyze the various components of the laws that governed its behavior, e.g. “hmmm … when we isolate the influence of x, the measurement of the output of the black box seems to correspond roughly to an exponential function of the measurement of x …”.
I don’t think lawful and reducible are entirely (or even a little) independent. Really, I’m struggling to think of an example where ‘lawful’ doesn’t mean ‘reducible’.