What is Complex and What is Not?
When is a system complex?
When trying to decide if a given system is complex, it is important to be clear about some of the distinctions I made in the definition of complexity (yesterday’s post).
First, the strict definition of a complex system is that it has some observable behavior that can only be explained by a […]
The definition of “complexity”
A question has come up about what exactly is the definition of “complexity”. The motive behind the question is a debate about the impact of complexity on our efforts to build intelligent systems, but the definition is interesting in its own right.
I propose the following as a general definition (or explanation-plus-definition) of “complexity”, where […]