I wonder if certain cognitive biases aren’t essential to storytelling. You could almost define “story” in terms of the absence of probability—while ‘overcoming bias’ is to a large extent a matter of forcing oneself to think in probabilistic terms.
(I don’t include poetry in this)
@Caledonian You say you’re not interested in human stories, but instead in:
“Systems that initially attract my attention, are sufficiently ordered so that I can form expectations about them, but sufficiently unpredictable such that my expectations are violated in comprehensible-yet-unexpected ways.”
Don’t humans meet these criteria?