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David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a New Aesthetic of Complexity?

There's a standard scientific aesthetic, which is best represented in modernism and abstraction. That also seems to play into an evolutionary theory about a trend towards reduced algorithmic complexity in our models. And ultimately, there it is again, that sort of bedrock into, in some sense, an ultimately aesthetic concern. It sometimes irritates me that mathematical physics hijack aesthetics in the service of only one artistic tradition.

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