Explaining the Banks
Even the foggiest outline of computerized exchanges exchanging billions of shares in an instant is already outside the realm of what any reasonable person would claim to comprehend, and that's just the phenomenon, the brute fact to be explained. Not even Newton could understand the physics of three orbiting bodies, much less a trillion, and if you found an explainer talented enough to explain a trillion computer-generated financial packages each impinging on all the others...
An explainer talented enough to explain this thing even to the most intelligent human could probably also explain it to a hamster, because the cognitive magnitude of the problem imposes a perspective where human intelligence and hamster intelligence dwindle analogously into specks on an infinitely distant horizon, and between one speck and another, there isn't much room for superiority.
But it may be possible to simplify our circumstances until our miniscule understanding can encompass them, and the first step down that road is renouncing our futile projects for understanding the world we live in now.
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