I keep running into versions of this idea all over the place
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I read somewhere that extremely simple systems and extremely complex systems are both predictable. The ones in the middle are not.
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depends on what you mean by complex. Sounds like you mean high-dimensional, like a gas, which is stochastically predictable.
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Yes; this seems to be basically restating (pre-restating?) the idea of flow experience, in a different context.
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yeah well trodden territory in a few different disciplines. Each version has an interesting new bit to add
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has one other place been “Sapiens”? It makes a similar point actually.





