Understanding complex systems requires reasoning about causal relationships that behave or appear to behave probabilistically. Features such as distributed agency, large spatial scales, and time ...

For humans and machines, intelligence requires making sense of the world — inferring simple explanations for the mishmosh of information coming in through our senses, discovering regularities and ...

Many people tend to view the experience of coincidences as evidence for a variety of mysterious causal mechanisms. On the other hand, skeptics tend to dismiss the psychological experience of ...