complexity

a critique, of the almost unconditionally binary perspective of complexity vs simplicity, observed playing out in certain academic conversations #rewrite (less hype, more specificity) beginnings Consider – not all complexity is equal : Innate complexity – territory (and any minimally-viable circumstantially sufficient abstraction) Contrived complexity – all other abstraction (and apparent human secretion/ sustenance/ fetish) Consider too – not all simplicity is equal : Simpler doesn’t mean ‘anything goes’ Remember, if a simple explanation doesn’t fit a circumstance or situation, it isn’t an explanation at all Consider then, that the simplest explanation is the one which is : Circumstantially sufficient; With least redundant conceptual baggage —conceptual baggage?...

ours is a coherent universe —what does that mean? I mean coherent in the colloquial sense: consistent throughout; plurally concordant; joined-up, aligned. In our universe, things happen for a reason. We may not always know what that reason is – but there is always one, just waiting to be found. Consider : That event B, happens for a reason, A That reason A, is also an event (and one which occurred earlier in time that event B), and That events A, B, relate to one another – A caused B We might then say : That event B, exists within the space-of-all potential (possible futures) of event A (Or observe retrospectively) that event A Exists within the space-of-all priors, of event B Satisfies the space-of-necessary priors, for event B, to occur That event A, was sufficient to cause event B That event A, necessarily caused event B However described, universal events relate in specific ways, which when taken together, align every single event throughout the history of our universe, to a coherent whole: consistent throughout; plurally concordant; joined-up, aligned....

the gist The improbable yet elementary case: describes several mutually-consistent mathematical accounts of the way in which (arbitrarily any) universal phenomena relate to one another (across arbitrary scopes/ domains of concern) – and builds to simple, inescapable, albeit counter-intuitive, #conclusions. The following is an attempt to describe the case in prose, and is taken from a mastodon thread with @[email protected]. map territory —have you ever considered the difference between: 1. a ’theory of everything’, and 2....