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Complexity: A Pluralistic Perspective
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812819598_0003Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
The following sections are included:
1 Introduction
2 Measures of Complexity
3 Origins of Complexity
4 Characteristics of Complexity
5 Reducing Complexity
5.1 Averaging
5.2 Fields and Symmetries
6 A Pluralistic Approach to Complexity
6.1 Viewpoints, Descriptions, and the Observer
6. 2 Natural Descriptions
6. 2.1 A biological system: Drosophila development
6.2.2 A formal-logic system: Primitives and the grue-bleen problem
6. 3 Formal Systems
6.4 Reductionism and the Dynamics Versus Computation Problem
7 Conclusion
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