Thread: Complexity

Originally Posted by drewmandan

I already stated probably the only idea general enough to apply to all situations thus far presented in this thread in my first post.

It is a good start, but I don't think your first post is specific enough. How do you judge the entropy of an impressionist painting, for instance; let alone compare it to the entropy of a skyscraper or a single celled organism? Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily looking for one universal scale by which to compare all structures, but a set of scales that can come closer to comparing all structures. Think of it as the concept of patterns becoming aware of itself. What patterns do patterns make?

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Oh, I see what you mean now.

Yea, that isn't redundancy-- Just two systems that yield the same result.

I don't understand; you say "that isn't redundancy", then give a pretty accurate definition of redundancy. What is it about 7+7=14 and 14=14 that distinguishes them from "Just two systems that yield the same result"?