antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:03 am on April 20, 2018

Making Sense Of Complexity – Sarah Firth graphics on medium

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Sep 14, 2017

Making Sense Of Complexity

Continues in source: Making Sense Of Complexity – Extra Newsfeed

The graphical representation by Sarah C. Firth is in the right direction. Deeper understanding may be available in the writing of Timothy F.H. Allen et. al. (2017, in press).

Complexity drawn @sarahthefirth could be refined with complicatedness via Timothy F.H. Allen appreciation of Robert Rosen modelling relation and Joseph Tainter collapse of complex societies.  

> First, we assess the implications of Rosen’s epistemological definition of complexity with respect to material difference. The possibility of the materiality of complexity stands as the basis of the analysis of complex systems, a central concept in ecology.  
> Second, we compare Rosen’s and Tainter’s assessment of complexity with regard to the concept of emergence and the possibility of degrees of complexity. 
> Third, we distinguish between complexity and complicatedness to draw attention to the potentially  confounding interaction between abstraction required to deal with the material world and the material world itself.

"Making Sense Of Complexity" | +Sarah Catherine Firth | Sept. 13, 2017 | Medium at https://extranewsfeed.com/making-sense-of-complexity-ee78755d56b9  

"Mapping degrees of complexity, complicatedness, and emergent complexity" | Timothy F.H. Allen , Preston Austin , Mario Giampietro , Zora Kovaci, Edmond Ramly, Joseph Tainter | 2017 (in press) | Ecological Complexity at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2017.05.004 indexed at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=2988099395601539330

Originally posted at https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidIng/posts/iPyWMuHFSSJ