It really blew my mind to read about how scientists usually try to figure things out by breaking them into tiny pieces like atoms or cells. The author explains that you can study a single ant all you want but you will never understand how the whole colony works just by looking at that one bug. It makes me think that the connections between things are actually more important than the things themselves. I used to think science was just about memorizing parts of a system but this chapter makes it seem like the real secret is seeing how simple stuff comes together to make complex patterns.
I also think it is super interesting how the book compares nature to a computer program. It is weird to realize that totally different subjects like biology and physics are actually similar because they both follow these basic rules of logic. The idea that nature is actually kind of lazy and reuses the same simple tricks for everything from snowflakes to economic markets is a really cool way to look at the world. It makes me feel like everything is connected through these hidden patterns that we can finally see now that we have computers to simulate them.