Heh, you're not going to make an empathetic attempt to listen to Russ' intent? 
8^)

My answer is either or both "yes" and/or "no", because your words are too 
ambiguous. Both "complex" and "system" are left to the audience's imagination.  
I would say that each of those _can_ exhibit complex phenomena when 
constrained, by a controlling [sub]system, to particular regimes of their 
behavior space.  So, yes.  But I would also say that each of those does not 
normally or naturally remain in such states for very long or under a wide range 
of circumstances.  So, no.

I suppose you get to choose which of my answers you accept.


On 05/26/2017 04:16 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Do you agree that at least one of these is an example of a non-biological
> complex system?
> 
>    - ferromagnetic system (described with ising model)
>    - Bénard cell formation (convection)
>    - Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction


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☣ glen

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