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complexity (human limitation is broader than mere subjugation to death…

- - - - specific peculiarities, constraints and biases of our particular cultures
        
        we're products of the social processes that shaped us, products of our time
      - characterized by profound intrinsic limitations on our perceptual and cognitive processing power
        
        we can only make sense of a fraction of the information that constantly presents itself to us.
  - - - George Kelly
        
        humans have an arbitrary, essential, unequivocal desire to be right - right once and for all, without question
        
        A major revision of one’s construct system can threaten with immediate change, or chaos, or anxiety. Thus it often seems better to extort confirmation of one’s opinion – and therefore of the system that produced them – rather than to risk the utter confusion of those moments of transition.
- - - - essence of intelligence : what is germane = hard part of the problems being solved, Brooks (1991b)
    - - relevance realization
    - - relevance cannot be determined objectively
      - stimulus doesn't speak for itself
      - events are simple and distinct only insofar as their relevant features are framed, a priori, by the constraints of an operative context
      - every object can be classified, even perceived, in an infinite number of ways
        
        => every object = infinitely complex, objectively, intrinsically
      - we live in a sea of complexity and uncertainty