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Collapsing the complicated/complex distinction: It’s complexity all the way down
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Collapsing the complicated/complex distinction: It’s complexity all the way down

Ragnar Van der Merwe
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, Vol.21(1), p.1
2023
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https://hdl.handle.net/10210/502813

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complex systems complexity theory Edgar Morin Sandra Mitchell Stuart Kauffman
Several complexity theorists draw a sharp and ontologically robust distinction between (merely) complicated systems and (genuinely) complex systems. I argue that this distinction does not hold. Upon fine-grained analysis, ostensibly complicated systems turn out to be complex systems. The purported boundary between the complicated and the complex appears to be vague rather than sharp. Systems are complex by degrees.
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