Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2001-01-02
Complexity International, Volume 9, (2001) Paper ID:standi09
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
submitted to Complexity International
Scientific paper
Numerous definitions for complexity have been proposed over the last half century, with little consensus achieved on how to use the term. A definition of complexity is supplied here that is closely related to the Kolmogorov Complexity and Shannon Entropy measures widely used as complexity measures, yet addresses a number of concerns raised against these measures. However, the price of doing this is to introduce context dependence into the definition of complexity. It is argued that such context dependence is an inherent property of complexity, and related concepts such as entropy and emergence. Scientists are uncomfortable with such context dependence, which smacks of subjectivity, and this is perhaps the reason why little agreement has been found on the meaning of these terms.
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