Yes, aggregation of smaller loads adds a degree of complexity, but not enough to explain the gorilla-scale size of the gap.

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There might indeed be a limit to the degree of complexity that we can comprehend, such as the interactions between thousands of genes or between the billions of nerves in our brains.

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This degree of complexity is common.

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