Quotes About Complexity

anything I've ever done. This makes string theory look as simple as addition.

Or, as the great physicist Freeman Dyson observed, 'The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

You know the old adage: nine women can't make a baby in a month.

All I know is that everything around us is astonishing. Impossible. We live in a universe so finely tuned for complex chemistry and life that the odds against it are greater than those of winning a thousand lotteries in a row. In a universe filled with exquisite microorganisms, voracious black holes, and trillions of stars, each of which can fit a million or more Earths inside. How can we possibly think that any view of God or creation can capture more than the tiniest hint of this reality?

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something. A theoretical physicist like Sheldon Lee Glashow cannot afford to write in the unreadable prose of the social sciences. He needs to communicate exceptionally complex truths in as simple and clear a language as possible.

for that reason I have not necessarily faced much discrimination.'19 So he had taken a couple of steps further into the hierarchy by becoming a man, had taken a couple of steps back by being a person of colour, but a step forward by being a light-skinned person of colour. And then he had hit the negative of being attractive. How can anyone work out where they are meant to be in the oppressor/oppressed stakes when they have so many competing privileges in their biography?

we still don't have much or any idea as to why some people are gay.

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.

We Ignore the Complexity of Human Motivations

el término sintergia se aplica a toda estructura informacional que posea interconectividad entre sus partes, coherencia e inclusión-convergencia informacional.

La experiencia humana, en todas sus cualidades, pertenece de base a la misma conciencia que cualquier experiencia cualitativa, en todos y cada uno de los seres sensitivos. Se requiere de un cerebro humano para activar la experiencia humana, porque solamente en los niveles sintergicos que el campo neuronal humano puede adquirir, la conciencia adquiere la complejidad suficiente

Las ideas son algoritmos y éstos no son otra cosa más que patrones organizados que contienen (en una estructura) cantidades enormes de información codificada

Atractor Extraño: En la física se refiere al algoritmo que describe un sistema complejo y hacia el cual el sistema prospera.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

They say Ill have fun but I cant imagine how cause I just see my ex girl standin wit my next girl standin wit the girl that Im fuckin right now.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

It is in he nature of love, and in the nature of art, to be complex, disturbing, taxing.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

Criticizing common sense, it must be said, is a tricky business,

Predicting black swans, in other words, requires us not only to see the future outcome about which we're making a prediction but also to see the future beyond that outcome, because only then will its importance be known.

Predictions about complex systems, in other words, are highly subject to the law of diminishing returns: The first pieces of information help a lot, but very quickly you exhaust whatever potential for improvement exists.

Biology doesn't really have universal laws either, and yet biologists still manage to make progress.

It may be, in fact, that once a system has attained a certain level of complexity, there is no way to rule out the possibility of failure.29 If so, we need not only better tools for thinking about systemic risk, but also a better way of thinking about how to respond to systemic failures when they inevitably occur.