📝We tolerate complexity by being ignorant

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Janzer₂₀₁₈ citing The Knowledge Illusion by Steven Sloman

It’s hard to know everything and being ignorant / overestimating own knowledge is an energy-preserving way out.

We tolerate complexity by failing to understand it. That’s the illusion of understanding.

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• Non-understanding is unpredictability (why we need to tolerate complexity)

See also

• Illusion of explanatory depth