Common wisdom holds that the most complicated thing in the universe (asides from the universe itself) is the human brain. In actual fact, however, other objects are even more complex – starting with human society, especially today’s hypermodern society, a product of thousands and even billions of human brains; not to forget globalisation and the Internet.

— Éric Pichet The Epistemology of Social Science (2011)

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