Abstractions are leaky, both these about markets and these about lives. It's ok, we know they leak details, we use them to get results faster. Markets are part

Abstractions are leaky, both these about markets and these about lives. It's ok, we know they leak details, we use them to get results faster. Markets are part of living, so it's not surprising that life as a whole is more complex than small part of it. But I don't see any qualitative differences, just a difference in degree. And millions of years of evolution isn't a very good argument - because rate of evolution is much quicker for culture than for biology. Nature was stuck on unicellular life and in oceans for billions of years. We got from walking to driving, flying and interplanetary travel in a few thousand years. What's going on behind all that richness in the universe might be very simple. We think it is actually very simple - a bunch of numeric fields and a few simple rules of how they interact. > Our thinking is linear, we abstract rich phenomena into few categories that we can verbalise our understand. I'm not sure what you mean by linear. People are certainly capable of thinking nonlinearly - for example people can understand recurrence. Abstraction also isn't the only kind of thinking we can do. We can be exhaustive as well, it's just slow and often doesn't contribute much to the result so why do it. > In that process, richness is lost. What do you exactly mean by that?