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Axioms of Complexity

Nitzan Hermon
Sep 17, 2021
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My working list of axioms in complexity are:

Interconnected overrules design: complex systems are not designable

Nature is non-designable — source...

Emergence is the opposite of design

Fish formations “just happen” — source

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)

In some ways, all trees are sane, and in others, they are absolutely not —source

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

Art is one example of open-ended thinking — source

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.

Urban planning is complicated, designing safety is complex — source

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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