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> I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system?

Karl Popper called it "monocausotaxophilia". Humans want everything to have a single cause.

Wikitionary says it was Ernst Pöppel…

You're correct. Apparently it's a common misattribution, and it's been wrong in my quotes.txt file for ages.

Thanks for catching it.

"Aha, 'monocausotaxophilia', finally a name for the thing causing all my problems!"

That’s pretty funny. It goes into my drawer with jokes like: I’m a biologist, and biologists never generalize!

Don't anthropomorphize things, they hate that!