Hi Alyssa:
Besides novelty in your thinking, you are also an excellent writer, and should get a higehr rating.
It is not quite the same, perhaps, but Descartes' philosophy of reductionism, somehow can lead to your suggestion of "modularize" complex problems into small segments [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism ]. That is the only way for humans, with their limited mind and, especially, starting originally from complete ignornce about the laws of the universe.
Being an experimental physicist, I have dissected the essential steps behind data gathering in all of our experimental apparatuses. In the process, I have found that nature has saddled us with a perpetual bottleneck to obtain the COMPLETE knowledge about anything. Humans have started with complete ignorance about the laws of nature; and we can understand one bit at a time. We have to keep on gathering more and more bits. However, how the newer COMPLETE set of bits will fit together, will always keep changing as we keep gathering more and more bits.
We have no choice but to iteratively advance to higher levels of knowledge, leveraging one "working theory" after another "working theory", and so on. However, instead of re-structuring the fundamental postulates of the older working theory to complement the newer "working theory", we have been accepting, as religious dogmas, the older theories and build something above it as the n-th story over the old building, instead of rebuilding a newer edifice. It is very hard; but that is the only way we can INCH towards the ontological reality.
Even though I do not have proper understanding how my Holobiota keeps generating these sentences; my ontological existence is validated by this writing on this computer. My Holobiont is transcribing my thoughts; therefore I exist; at elast as an assembly of trillions of cells! I am a partial reality of the universe because I am trying to unravel the realities of the universe.
Many of my earlier papers have also articulated this position. They can be downloaded from:
http://www.natureoflight.org/CP/
You can also download the paper: "Next Frontier in Physics--Space as a Complex Tension Field"; Journal of Modern Physics, 2012, 3, 1357-1368,
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/However, mp.2012.310173
You can directly contact me at:
Chandra.Roychoudhuri@uconn.edu
Stay happy.
Stay healthy.
That is the surest way to keep the Covid-19, and their earlier friends, under control. Avoiding exposure to them forever is impossible.
Sincerely,
Chandra.