My dad actually did some work on this. When I was younger I couldn't believe that such a thing was true. Now that I'm much older and got a couple of engineering degrees and have worked for a while, it doesn't surprise me much at all.

The older I get the more I recognize that shit is weird. Intuition is extremely useful for "simple" deterministic systems. Once biology gets involved, though, intuition (at least in an engineering sense) tends to go right out the window.