Millions of years ago a staggeringly complex system (post-ice-age Earth) began warming. After a very long time, probabilities collapsed: continents and oceans formed at random locations on our planet.

Then, time: Biology... Civilization...

Quenched Disorder is a concept in physics whereby properties of a system are randomly generated and then frozen. The system now works with (or against) them. I love this because it's grounded in natural law and so fundamentally human. We see this every day and complain about it, yet it's a fundamental law of our universe.

Disorder and chaos are unavoidable conjurations of the universe itself. Observing the game that grows and adapts to those ethereal constraints is the most tangible form of magic: watching a child grow, a career unfold, a community come together (or become divided).

For more read Notes on Complexity by Neil Theise.