33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Is There a Definition of Complexity?
Each of these measures is measuring a feature of a complex system, and it's not measuring complexities per se. The measure itself can't tell you whether the order that you've got, where it came from - it just tells you how much order there is. So, for example, if you imagine a string of digits, you can calculate, well, what's the order,. but it doesn't tell you where that string came from. And if you know that that came from a complex system then it's a kind of proxy measure for the complexity of that system. But it's notasuring complexity as such. It's measuring order produced by a complex system. Does this have a name?
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