Claims / C-N28ERG84XF
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The problems we care about are the ones science skipped. Part I uses Weaver's 1947 division: problems of simplicity, with two variables, which gave us the radio, the telephone, the car and the plane; problems of disorganised complexity, with billions of interactions, handled by probability and statistical mechanics; and problems of organised complexity, which have far fewer variables than the second class and show the essential feature of organisation. The third class was practically ignored, and almost every natural and human phenomenon we are concerned with sits in it.
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Problems of organized complexity contain more variables than simple problems but substantially less than problems of disorganized complexity and “show the essential feature of organization.” Some problems that fall into this category would be, why does salt water fail to slake thirst? Why do evening primroses open when they do? What affec
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