PS. Just because my home page says I am _interested_ in the
"philosophy and measurement of Complexity per se" does NOT mean that
I think that Complexity can always be measured - just like someone
may well collect "perpetual-motion" machines without beliving in the
possiblity of perpetual motion!!!!
W.r.t. some languages and types of difficulty of "specification of
overall behaviour" I think this is possible, but I think that for
some it is definitely NOT. Which, I think, is pretty well inevitable
from the bredth of my approach to the definition of "complexity".
I am not directly concerned with a definition of life. Clearly
whatever you mean by "Complex" we are it (though we would be pretty
big-headed to think we were the only example). Of course, this
depends on you language of representation and the type of difficulty
of overall description you are concerned with.
Again: I do not _reject_ Rosen's approach, but as a *definition* of
"complexity" I think it is one specific approach (NOTE: I an NOT
talking about Rosen's general approach to systems etc. this might be
general). I see his definition as a special case of mine.
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Centre for Policy Modelling,
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