Axioms of Complexity
My working list of axioms in complexity are:
Interconnected overrules design: complex systems are not designable

Emergence is the opposite of design

A system is as complex as we need it to be: we can exercise reduction if the situation allows, and seek extra details (context) when the solution slides off the problem (lacks context)

Complex systems are open-ended (beyond n-dimensions), hence a machine can never be truly intelligent.

Complicated systems–like a car, computer program, or highway system–are an elaborate stacking of known constructs.
We can model the difference between complex and complicated as the difference between designing a highway system or designing fewer accidents.

While complex and complicated are used interchangeably in everyday language, the space between them is endlessly useful in developing resilient systems.
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