It's copromancy. Picking through the clanker's doings in an attempt to predict the future.

Thanks, you taught me a new word today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatomancy

It feels like Greek mythology should have some metaphor for "apparently simple structure that is so complex it leads anybody that studies it into madness". But I can't think of any name to put there.

Maybe the idea of complexity is too modern.