I got as far as 36ish where he decided that all extant academic study of the mind is an exercise in futility and that mathematics is incapable of representing n

I got as far as 36ish where he decided that all extant academic study of the mind is an exercise in futility and that mathematics is incapable of representing nondeterministic phenomena. (Gee. Warn the psychologists, warn the statisticians, tell them all to stop wasting their time.) It seems like the author realizes that behavior of complex and chaotic systems is really hard to reason about and model accurately (he calls out sociological systems, which also are lovely and heterogenous), and I guess reasoning about complex software is similar. Sure. But he tries to parlay that into a quasi-spiritual characteristic of the systems rendering them immune to simulation, instead of a limitation of our current capacity to efficiently construct models.