Comments on: Is Elegance all it’s cracked up to be? http://icbf.com.au/index.php/2010/01/25/is-elegance-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/ Changing Brains Since 2009 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Morgan http://icbf.com.au/index.php/2010/01/25/is-elegance-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Morgan Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:48:36 +0000 http://icbf.com.au/?p=118#comment-138 Yep, agree completely - and there's some really interesting stuff regarding what sorts of complexity we can easily parse (for example, physics is a great source of complexity in games, because we can easily parse it). Need to brush up on my complexity theory - thanks for the pointer. Yep, agree completely – and there’s some really interesting stuff regarding what sorts of complexity we can easily parse (for example, physics is a great source of complexity in games, because we can easily parse it).

Need to brush up on my complexity theory – thanks for the pointer.

]]> By: @thorfi http://icbf.com.au/index.php/2010/01/25/is-elegance-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-135 @thorfi Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:13:51 +0000 http://icbf.com.au/?p=118#comment-135 Complexity theory (from maths land) talks about the "edge of chaos". You can have a system that is "too simple" (leading to boring), or "too complex" (leading to random not-understandable chaos). Life, and pretty much everything "interesting" exists on the "edge of chaos" - organised enough to clearly have some rules, but *just* complex enough to promote some occasional randomness. Complexity theory (from maths land) talks about the “edge of chaos”.

You can have a system that is “too simple” (leading to boring), or “too complex” (leading to random not-understandable chaos).

Life, and pretty much everything “interesting” exists on the “edge of chaos” – organised enough to clearly have some rules, but *just* complex enough to promote some occasional randomness.

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