Praising the Nobel Prize Committee for Breaking in the Wall between Physics and Computer Science

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The Nobel Prize committee is so brave and progressive to break the wall between physics and computer science. After all, knowledge is knowledge, when learnt, it all becomes a unified entity in one's mind.

The separation of "disciplines" exists only to show the material limitation of the human brain, such that it is impossible for one person to learn every piece of knowledge in his single lifetime.

However, it wasn't the case when rational thinking first became a thing -- everyone was able to learn every piece of knowledge, until knowledge exploded and humans have to invent the concept of "disciplines" to preserve knowledge and to school.

It will not be the case in the future either, when AI becomes a universal tool for problem solving, rendering "scientific understanding" unnecessary and impossible. Separation of disciplines of the Nobel Prize will be outdated as well when that happens.

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