Complexity

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Some notes from a presentation by Mitchell Whitelaw to the SAFFIRE Festival

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## Weaver's Complexity

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Disorganised complexity

* Many disconnected variables
* Uniform disorder
* Sum to noise

Organised complexity

* Many interrelated variables
* Not totally ordered (uniform)
* Not disordered (random)
* Complex order

Warren Weaver, Science and Complexity, in American Scientist, 36, 536-544

Traditional search reduces complexity

“  | The underlying principle of aesthetic experience is that of complexity giving way to orderliness.  | ”

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