Re: Comparing Rosennean Complexity

[James N Rose <***>]

Judith Rosen wrote:

> if
> complexity is a fundamental tendency in the universe, how can any material
> system be simple (non-complex)? My father's answer was that both types of
> organization co-exist in this universe (it's even possible that there are
> others) and it is the organization that determines whether the system is
> complex or non-complex. Don M's argument was that if atoms are complex and a
> car engine is made of atoms and made by humans and so on... how can that be
> a "simple system". But that's a reductionist approach. The parts are not
> what determines complexity; ORGANIZATION is what determines complexity. A
> car engine is a system with non-complex organization. A simple system in the
> material world.
>


Judith,

Did your father ever point to anything that could be identified
as a 'fundamental mechanism or relationship', that generated or
educed the phenomenon of 'tendency toward complexity'?

James