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The Science of Complexity

Complexity has become somewhat of a buzzword in this day and age, as I'm sure you've noticed. Stephen Hawking was asked the following question at the turn of the millennium: Some say that while the 20th century was the century of physics, we are now entering the century of biology. In each case, the reason why it's complex is because of the number of possibilities that that system can have. If it only has one possibility, it's just a simple system. If it has many, many, many possibilities, then if I want to tell you about it, I have to send you a very, very long message. So the complexity and information are really kind of

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