Hasn't that emerged as a key characteristic of biological evolution -
the alternation between new "parts" (molecules), increasingly complex
combinations of those parts, encapsulation of successful combinations
into new parts (pathways, cells, tissues, organs, systems), etc., wash,
rinse repeat?
For that matter, it's certainly how we build systems: components ->
subsystems -> systems -> systems of systems -> ecosystems......
Miles Fidelman
Paul Homer wrote:
I wouldn't describe complexity as a problem, but rather an attribute
of the universe we exist in, effecting everything from how we organize
our societies to how the various solar systems interact with each other.
Each time you conquer the current complexity, your approach adds to
it. Eventually all that conquering needs to be conquered itself ...
Paul.
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*From:* Loup Vaillant <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Friday, June 15, 2012 1:54:04 PM
*Subject:* Re: [fonc] The Web Will Die When OOP Dies
Paul Homer wrote:
> It is far more than obvious that OO opened the door to allow massive
> systems. Theoretically they were possible before, but it gave us
a way
> to manage the complexity of these beasts. Still, like all
technologies,
> it comes with a built-in 'threshold' that imposes a limit on
what we can
> build. If we are too exceed that, then I think we are in the
hunt for
> the next philosophy and as Zed points out the ramification of
finding it
> will cause yet another technological wave to overtake the last one.
I find that a bit depressing: if each tool that tackle complexity
better than the previous ones lead us to increase complexity (just
because we can), we're kinda doomed.
Can't we recognized complexity as a problem, instead of an unavoidable
law of nature? Thank goodness we have STEPS project to shed some
light.
Loup.
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