With all the wrangling around simple systems, avoiding complexity, emergent order out of complexity, we need to ask what does complexity achieve. In a paper titled, Complexity and Robustness J. M. Carlson, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and John Doyley, Control and Dynamical... 

With all the wrangling around simple systems, avoiding complexity, emergent order out of complexity, we need to ask what does complexity achieve. In a paper titled, Complexity and Robustness J. M. Carlson, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and John Doyley, Control and Dynamical... 

I’m here in Bangkok for my annual supervision of the Global Consulting Project. And again, I have been struck by the ubiquity of 7-Elevens in this city.  On the relatively quiet street of our hotel there are four branches of said store within a stretch of about 250 metres, including two pretty much directly across...