Actually, Jeri, I am inclined (despite my florid language) to believe that the simpler something is the more intelligence must be behind it.

In the theory of complex systems one of the major breakthroughs was the discovery that in all sorts of complex systems. the apparent complexity can be boiled down to a small number of simple rules, plus a large numbers of transactions or instances based on those rules.

Seeing through the wide array of symptomatic results to the underlying simplicity of basic causes is a mark of brilliance, IMHO.


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