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The Complexity Edition
The new science of complexity echoes the wisdom long passed down in the poetic tradition. The way to build a poem or a lifelike and useful system is to fold meaning into the simplest elements and allow complexity to emerge from their natural self-generation. Deal with many simple elements instead of one complex system. Think locally, act locally, i
... See moreDavid Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
system is complex if it has emergent properties.5 I’ve already mentioned the example of the brain. We humans don’t just think – we are conscious, with a sophisticated model of ourselves, the world around us and how we fit into it.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
In this sense, cities are an outstanding example of complex adaptive systems: collections of individual constituents (people, in this case) that interact in myriad ways, usually mediated by some sort of network.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The complexity that we despise is the complexity that leads to difficulty. It isn't the complexity that raises problems. There is a lot of complexity in the world. The world is complex. That complexity is beautiful. I love trying to understand how things work. But that's because there's something to be learned from mastering that complexity.
artima.com • Artima - The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
