70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The Problem of Complexity in a Network of Objects
He has an idea that there is in this notion of kettle for example a number of variables which can be either yes or no. Those variables are interlinked in a network of objects defined by sets and the relationship between them can be like positively reinforcing or negatively reinforcing. The structure of that relationship determines whether the system will become like stable at perfection because there's too much like churn of randomness. If they're too enmeshed with each other if the problem is too complicated it can never evolve to form a state of equilibrium where it's perfect, he says.
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