Ptolemy and the Limits of Deep Learning

That's because we are encumbered in this world to have limited computational capabilities. We need abstractions and generalizations to navigate the complexities of this world. But along the way in developing a way to simplify the complex world, we discovered recurring patterns that have infinite reach. The models that we have discovered also allowed us to reason about many more different systems and to create universal computational machines. Obscured from our intuitive understanding of this world is that fundamental reality that everything is of computational origin.