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01/18/12
IN PRAISE OF NATURAL COMPLEXITY
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 4:30 pm

From a single trunk, a thousand branches;
From a thousand rivulets and rills, a single stream.
Simple to complex; Complex to simple.

Complexity is richness, is diversity, is always good.
Complicatedness, or the unnecessarily convoluted or
difficult, is always bad.

Complicatedness, because of the contradictory, meaningless
way it wastes energy, is never a feature of natural systems.

Complicatedness, as it leads to contradiction, necessarily
leads to collapse, not just of the crucial Nature/Culture
relationship, but also, in the Arts.

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