L. K. Samuels on Power
born 1951 United States
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The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.
Without precise predictability, control is impotent and almost meaningless. In other words, the lesser the predictability, the harder the entity or system is to control, and vice versa. If our universe actually operated on linear causality, with no surprises, uncertainty, or abrupt changes, all future events would be absolutely predictable in a sort of waveless orderliness.
In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)