Simplifying Complexity

3 The human animal and its ascendance from ignorance

But there is another perspective we can take about the jumbled up complexity we have faced in times past. And that perspective is simply to see it all as just a part of that general ignorance that we all have about most all of the things that surround us. We have no notion of the scale of it, nor do we have any precise measurement or definition of it.

But in opposition to this view of mine that focuses on ignorance as a way of seeking and trying to define what we know, there are all those people who want to deal with complexity in objective and realistic terms, who think complexity as something objective and existing outside of us. They seem naturally to believe that there is a world existing ...