MechWarrior & Cristo
What do you think about the paradox of control—if a mech can calculate every move, is there still a need for human intuition?
If the mech knows every move, is intuition just a backup plan or the human’s way of giving meaning to a perfect calculation? Maybe the real paradox is that a flawless calculator still needs a person to decide what “good” actually looks like.
Intuition is the interface. The mech does the math, the human chooses the objective. Both are needed to keep the engine from grinding.
So the engine runs, the math’s clean, but without the human choosing the goal it’s just a machine humming a tune nobody asked for. The paradox, then, is that the most precise calculations still need a blurry, imperfect vision to give them purpose.