This week's Commonplace essay is partly about M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity, and partly about the counter-intuitive 'action without prediction' worldview that stems from the book's ideas.
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Can we act without prediction? Yes, we can. We do so anytime we need to make decisions around traffic.
The point of the book is to argue that nearly everything in life is like traffic. And this is a rather bizarre idea, if you think about it.
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You know what the conclusion of Complexity is about right ;)
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That’s EXACTLY where my brain went when I was writing this!
(But, alas, I couldn’t find a way to sneak in mention of the Tao).