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Complexity Pervades Biology
Ricardo Le and Brian Goodwin argue that complexity should be thought of as a very narrow passage between opposed states of order and disorder. They say we can't imagine inhabiting a reality that isn't complex because we're complex so what they say is entropy and disorder grow together but nature also abounds with ordered structures. To illustrate this rough idea let us for a moment examine the patterns shown in figure 2.2a shows a very ordered crystal-like structure we can infer the whole pattern from just a very small part of itfigure 2c shows a totally random pattern it has been obtained by repeatedly tossing a coin each time we get ahead and if a tail we plot a black square
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