A film lasting about four minutes on YouTube shows examples of wildlife behaviour, like plant animal interactions during pollination. The film can practically be subdivided into a large number of pictures on a screen of 1 m². Each individual picture of the film might also be subdivided into smaller or larger compartments. If one picture of the film would be subdivided into a puzzle of 10.000 cm² and each 1 cm² is visualized and analysed separately, which part of the screen is required to get an idea about the information provided by the whole screen and the whole film? Doing this might result in a continuous flow of an uncountable number of potential hypotheses. Different people watching the whole film, a fraction of the film, or a fraction of the screen presenting one picture of the film will produce different hypotheses based on what they perceive and what they memorised in the past. Different potential hypotheses will definitely follow different probability distributions depending on who is watching the film and scales of analyses or perception involved. The probability that two observers will produce exactly the same hypothesis using same wording and terminology will probably be very low. How many hypotheses might be formulated focusing on only 1 cm² from a screen of 1 m² and what will be the scientific approach used? Hypotheses and methods used to test them will change with changes in scales of analysis and perception, e.g. going from 1 pixel to 1 mm² to 1 cm² to 2 cm² up to 1 m². Pixel analysis might focus on physics of colours whereas analyses of whole pictures might focus on physics of colours or colour contrasts but also on other aspects, like why and how two filmed species interact. How many mathematical equations will be required to describe 4 minutes of film details concerning plant-animal interactions during pollination? If people only would have access to Mathematics describing the film they did not see before, how would they translate equations into film pictures or compartments of film pictures? How would different mathematicians cope with 20 pages of mathematical equations to be transformed into visual pictures of which contents become accessible to citizens?
Does this implies that the same problem (e.g. understanding the content of an image or a series of images) might be tackled in many different ways depending on who will start and conduct research (e.g. founder effects in the initiation of a project), probably also related to biology-based experience of the researchers involved.
How much Math equations do we need to describe a single oak tree with more than 1000 branches, twigs and leaves.....
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