This question becomes difficult whenever a system becomes sufficiently complex. Take any chaotic system, like a double pendulum, and press play at step 100,000. You ask 'what is it doing'? Well, it's just applying it's rule. Step to step.
Zoom out and look at it's trajectory over those 100,00 steps and ask again.
The answer is something alien. Probabilistically it is certain the description of its behavior is not going to exist in a space we as humans can understand. Maybe if we were god beings we could say 'No no, you see the behavior of the double pendulum isn't seemingly random, you just have to look at it like this'. Encryption is a decent analogy here.
We're fooled into thinking we can understand these systems because we forced them to speak English. Under the hood is a different story.
Zoom out and look at it's trajectory over those 100,00 steps and ask again.
The answer is something alien. Probabilistically it is certain the description of its behavior is not going to exist in a space we as humans can understand. Maybe if we were god beings we could say 'No no, you see the behavior of the double pendulum isn't seemingly random, you just have to look at it like this'. Encryption is a decent analogy here.
We're fooled into thinking we can understand these systems because we forced them to speak English. Under the hood is a different story.