31 October

If you wanted to know something about China, you'd get some statistics. Statistics are always a simplification, you won't find out much about the individual billion+ Chinese, only simple patterns they make as a group. An average rock has ZILLIONS of particles in it, so what we know about it is an *enormous* statistical simplification. I think our assumption that we're way more complex than ordinary objects is because we're only seeing really drastic statistical simplifications of what goes on in those objects. Humans seem more complex because we're seeing them up closer, there are so few of them compared to the number of particles in an object. Objects are the statistical patterns zillions of things make, not a mere billion.