Something is hard to describe if it is complex. Neither pure disorder nor pure order in form of simple regularities is very hard to describe. Complexity is characterized by order in disorder or order in chaos: regularity in irregularity, predictability in unpredictability, and unity in diversity.
Murray Gell-Mann argues that the effective complexity for both completely regular and completely random systems is very low, because you cannot find many regularities in the system which can be expressed by a suitable schema, description or rule (see the end of chapter 5 in his book "The Quark and the Jaguar"). -J. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
