What comes to my mind (as control systems engineer) is the juxtaposition of thinking in causal chains and thinking of systems with feedback loops (positive or negative). Humans tend to think in former; the the dynamics of the latter cannot easily be inferred from the open loop dynamics.

Thoughts along those lines: https://medium.com/swlh/the-system-modelling-perspective-on-conspiracy-theories-c424c368df4a