[FRIAM] Is disorder harder to describe than order?

Jochen Fromm fromm at vs.uni-kassel.de
Fri Aug 25 04:36:11 EDT 2006


Something is hard to describe if it is complex. 
Neither pure disorder nor pure order in form of simple 
regularities is very hard to describe. Complexity is 
characterized by order in disorder or order in chaos: 
regularity in irregularity, predictability in 
unpredictability, and unity in diversity. 

Murray Gell-Mann argues that the effective complexity
for both completely regular and completely random systems
is very low, because you cannot find many regularities 
in the system which can be expressed by a suitable schema, 
description or rule (see the end of chapter 5 in his book 
"The Quark and the Jaguar").

-J.




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