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> The world always makes sense. But it can be confusing.

I just don't agree with this at all. I think its folly to assume the world will always make sense. As humans we seek to make sense of things, but not everything fits into our cognitive little boxes.

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I agree with it fully, it’s only based on the assumption that all decisions a person makes are made for a reason. Which is almost certainly true. If you say that somebody’s decision making doesn’t make sense, the only actual explanations for that are either that you don’t understand their rationale, or that you’re making a value judgement that their rationale is bad. Neither of those things involve a lack of making sense. The claim “this doesn’t make sense…” is always associated with an implicit “…to me”.

The same thing applies to anything that emerges from a system of multiple people making multiple decisions, or from any observation about nature. The only thing that changes is the complexity of what you’re trying to understand.

I interpreted the statement differently than you did. I translate “world makes sense” to mean that people act in accordance with their motivations. If people are acting in a way that seems irrational to you or at odds with their stated motivations, likely you have misjudged their motivations or they are concealing their true motivations.

I agree with your disagree.

The very idea of "making sense" is a human construct. The universe doesn't care about making sense - to us or otherwise, except to the extent that we are part of it, and some of us care. There's no magical rule that says "the world" should, will, or even can "make sense".

(IMO :)

The universe doesn’t have to care about making sense to us for us to make sense of it.

I tend to think the only reasonable and scientific viewpoint is that it’s possible to make sense of everything. Anything else is defeatist.

But this magical rule does exist, it is a human construct called 'making sense' :)

It simply meant that "there is always a reason for things[: if you do not see it, your world model is incomplete]".

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