A
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Ability - complexity generally expands beyond
our ability to handle it |
B
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Baroque -
a style, typical of much modern technology, which revels in excessive complexity |
C
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Confusion - complexity causes confusion, which
produces further complexity |
D
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Denial of complexity, preference for simplification |
E
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Emergence of complexity from interaction and interference |
F
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Future Shock - must progress always lead away
from the simple towards ever greater complexity? |
I
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Intelligence needs mastery and negotiation of
complexity |
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Contradiction,
Interference
Ambiguity, Equivoque (Weick),
Polarity, Oscillation, Khora (Derrida) |
| Self-Referential SenseMaking - Systems that contain a
model of themselves. |
Polyphony, Diversity (Opinion, Style), Plurality (Values),
Ambivalence |
| Layering, folding, folding back. Not a neat set of distinct
hierarchical levels, but something more like a lasagne, in which hastily-laid
and irregular layers have melted together. |
Metacommunication
- Communication that means different things at different levels. (Bateson) |
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Where is Complexity - If I say
a system is complex, am I saying something about the system, or something
about myself?
Purpose
of Complexity: Devious Management and Investment Risk - What can we
infer from excessive complexity?
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