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Complexity
Complexity emerged as a paradigm for a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. Concepts from natural sciences, notably chaos theory,...
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Categories of Complexity
The problem of complexityComplexity is discussed in the frame of the new principle of systematization on the three categories: synchronic...
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From complexity to systems
The interrelation between two theories, theory of complexity and theory of systems, is analyzed by using the chemical graph-theoretical concept. The...
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Defending the Pathological Complexity Thesis
In this article, I respond to commentaries by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg and by David Spurrett on my target article “Complexity and the...
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Complexity, Valence, and Consciousness
Veit’s central claims are, first, that the function of valenced consciousness is to deal with pathological complexity, and, second, that pathological...
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Why computational complexity may set impenetrable barriers for epistemic reductionism
According to physicalism, everything is physical or metaphysically connected to the physical. If physicalism were true, it seems that we should – in...
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From Complexity to Systems
This book sheds new light on the interactions between the science of complexity and the science of systems. Though both of these fields have been...
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Phenomenology and Complexity
This text aims to show how some substantial ontological conclusions, consistent with the notion of ‘complexity’, can be demonstrated through...
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Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness
This article introduces and defends the “pathological complexity thesis” as a hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of minimal consciousness, or...
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Semantic Information and the Complexity of Deduction
In the chapter “Information and Content” of their Impossible Worlds, Berto and Jago provide us with a semantic account of information in deductive...
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Organizational complexity in big science: strategies and practices
Studies on ‘Big Science’ have shifted our perspective from the complexity of scientific objects and their representations to the complexity of...
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Complexity of the Universal Theory of Residuated Ordered Groupoids
We study the computational complexity of the universal theory of residuated ordered groupoids, which are algebraic structures corresponding to...
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Concept of Complexity
In this chapter, the basic origins from which the concept of complexityComplexity has been emerged are elucidated. The illustrative examples are used...
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Handling Whistleblowing Reports: The Complexity of the Double Agent
Increasingly organizations have dedicated systems and personnel (recipients) to receive and handle internal whistleblower reports. Yet, the...
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Does nature learn? Information integration and rare events in systems of increasing complexity
The environment is a continuous source of matter and energy, which dynamizes the adaptive processes of biological systems, so that these systems...
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Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Epistemic Complexity
This essay seeks to characterize one of the leading ideas in Bhaṭṭa Jayanta's Nyāyamañjarī, the fundamental role that the idea of complexity plays in...
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The Significance and Complexity of Conscience
The concept of conscience continues to play a central role in our ethical reasoning as well as in public and philosophical debate over medical...
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Parameterized Complexity of Propositional Inclusion and Independence Logic
We give a comprehensive account on the parameterized complexity of model checking and satisfiability of propositional inclusion and independence...
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A Network Approach to Compliance: A Complexity Science Understanding of How Rules Shape Behavior
To understand how compliance develops both in everyday and corporate environments, it is crucial to understand how different mechanisms work together...
