Kinds of complexity

Posted by Robert Holmes on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Kinds-of-complexity-tp522384p522387.html

On 8/9/06, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>...In fact, asking for the true mathematical definition of
> complexity today is like asking for the true mathematical definition of
> electricity in 1800: to understand electricity, it turned out to be much
> more productive to define several quantities, such as charge, current,
> voltage, inductance, etc.
>

At least those scientists had the good sense to give these quantities
different names. We just call each of our disparate quantites 'complexity'
and then wonder why we can't get any equations to work.

Robert
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