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

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 b...

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Main Author: Ragnar van der Merwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Croatian Interdisciplinary Society 2023-02-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems
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Online Access:http://indecs.eu/2023/indecs2023-pp1-17.pdf