That's "C.S. Peirce" he should have known or fact-checked before posting

[Richard Fiero]

 From "C. S. Peirce's Theory of Self-Organization and The Crying of 
Lot 49" and apparently paraphrasing Peirce:
"Each bets one dollar each time [with] an even chance of winning or 
losing. Now it is a curious and apparently paradoxical result that 
although everything is supposed to happen by pure chance yet we know 
. . . how those million players will stand at the end of a million 
bets." This remark makes no sense. It is the definition of random 
that each trial or event is independent from every other trial. In 
coin tossing after a run of twelve heads the next toss is no more 
likely or less likely to be heads. It is mostly certain that there 
will be large excursions from the mean.

Now for Wiener who it's claimed is big on self-organizing complexity. 
Wiener wanted to build robots that can build robots. Maxwell's Demon 
is ever present and refuses to die. The following remarks are lifted 
or paraphrased from Machine Dreams by Philip Mirowski.
"Between the inexorable decay and dissolution in the laws of 
thermodynamics, Maxwell foresaw a third possibility in the nature of 
molecular structures - neither of progress nor decay but of 
stability." Norbert Wiener "If the seventeenth and the early 
eighteenth centuries are the age of clocks . . . the present time is 
the age of communications and control." The later Wiener wondered 
that if mankind is endowed with this kind of intelligence, then why 
wouldn't it be possible that Nature also possessed that capacity. And 
if Nature also had the capacity to exert intelligence, then how would 
we ever know whether Nature was merely indifferent to the fate of 
mankind or, more distressing, was both malevolent and misleading with 
regard to the supposed triumph of mankind over dissolution? "This 
subjection of Nature to a hermeneutics of suspicion was later easily 
extended to Society [in the game and war-game work done at RAND and 
other places]." Von Neumann: "To what extent can human reasoning in 
the sciences be more efficiently replaced by mechanisms?" Wiener 
wanted to build robots to build robots; von Neumann built 
self-organizing cellular automatons.
Frederich Nietzsche : "According to nature you want to live? . . . 
Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent 
beyond measure, without purposes and consideration, without mercy and 
justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine 
indifference  itself as a power - how could you live according to 
this indifference?"