Collapsing the Complicated/Complex Distinction: It's Complexity all the Way Down

Autor:	Ragnar van der Merwe
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	complex systems complexity theory stuart kauffman sandra mitchell edgar morin Social sciences (General) H1-99
Zdroj:	Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1334-4684 1334-4676
DOI:	10.7906/indecs.21.1.1
Popis:	Several complexity theorists draw a sharp and ontologically robust distinction between (merely) complicated systems and (genuinely) complex systems. I argue that this distinction does not hold. Upon fine-grained analysis, ostensibly complicated systems turn out to be complex systems. The purported boundary between the complicated and the complex appears to be vague rather than sharp. Systems are complex by degrees.
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