## Metadata - Author: [[David C. Krakauer, Murray Gell-Mann, Kenneth Arrow, W. Brian Arthur, John H. Holland, Richard Lewont...]] - Full Title: Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight - Category: #books ## Highlights - Traditionally things can be hidden in two fundamentally different ways. Things can be hidden in space, and they can be hidden in time. To hide in space means that phenomena lie beyond the scope of our everyday senses because they are either too small or too distant to be detected without amplification. Things can be hidden in time by being too fast for us to perceive or too slow for a single lifetime to encompass. ([Location 128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07ZDJPLD4&location=128)) - Paradoxically the complex world is one that we can in many senses perceive and measure directly. Unlike distant stars or nearby minerals that require a significant increase in optical capability to arrive at insights into their elementary properties, behavior—both individual and collective—seems to present itself in a way that can be investigated rather modestly, through observation, or through experiment. But the way in which complex phenomena are hidden, beyond masking by space and time, is through nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence—a deck of attributes that have proved ill suited to our intuitive and augmented abilities to grasp and to comprehend. ([Location 137](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07ZDJPLD4&location=137))