The Challenge of Complexity
Complexity science suggests that our tendency to oversimplify to feel more in control of our world is a bad move. Stuart Kauffman's thinking about order for free illustrates the point.
Kauffman focuses on where novelty comes from, which is natural considering his desire to explain biological evolution. His idea of autocatalysis suggests that a living system can form without a blueprint. It's self-organizing, an intrinsic property of the system. Once the network reaches a critical point of connections and strengths of connections among the nodes, you get order for free, and the whole network can change unpredictability. The connections in the system cause the emergent internal dynamic, the pattern of behavior, of the ...
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