{"id":67284,"date":"2020-01-06T01:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T01:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67284"},"modified":"2020-01-06T01:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T01:42:01","slug":"complexity-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67284","title":{"rendered":"Complexity and cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron <\/strong>&#8212; the spontaneity and  consequent unpredictability of cats surely stems from their complexity, though I doubt the level of complexity described here is sufficient to account for their ornery individualisms ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that I&#8217;m collecting instances of <strong>complexity<\/strong>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66548\">wave-fronts on rocky beaches<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56990\">understanding Boko Haram<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58504\">idealism<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3498\">Afghanistan<\/a>, and from there <a href=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3074\">to simplicity<\/a> under the astute guidance of <strong>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/strong>..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wave-mix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wave-mix.png 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wave-mix-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Well, then there&#8217;s cats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a cat cannot easily change where it lives: all the extraordinary knowledge in its head, of friends and enemies and hiding places, built up over time, has to do with a particular place..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/06\/the-strangeness-of-grief\"><em><strong>The Strangeness of Grief<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <strong>VS Naipaul<\/strong>.. How&#8217;s that for adding complexity to our conceptual universe? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the spontaneity and consequent unpredictability of cats surely stems from their complexity, though I doubt the level of complexity described here is sufficient to account for their ornery individualisms ] . You may have noticed that I&#8217;m collecting instances of complexity, from the wave-fronts on rocky beaches to understanding Boko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047,526,1632,327,9,1,2048],"tags":[2049],"class_list":["post-67284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-charles-cameron","category-collections","category-complex-systems","category-complexity","category-uncategorized","category-waves","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67293,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67284\/revisions\/67293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}