Complexity

Weaver's Complexity

 * Disorganised complexity
 * Many disconnected variables
 * Uniform disorder
 * Sum to noise


 * Organised complexity
 * Many interrelated variables
 * Not totally ordered (uniform)
 * Not disordered (random)
 * Complex order

Warren Weaver, Science and Complexity, in American Scientist, 36, 536-544

Traditional search reduces complexity

"The underlying principle of aesthetic experience is that of complexity giving way to orderliness."

- Peter Frederick Smith, 2003, The Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics. London: