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An 8 page paper that answer 30 questions pertaining to Mitchell Waldrop's text Complexity, which explores the ramifications of complexity theory and its implications for society. No additional sources cited.
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This being the case, how does one reconcile the second law of thermodynamics with the theory of evolution, which maintains that all of the complex creatures that inhabit the earth
evolved from simple organisms - i.e. that life forms went from simple toward complex. An emerging new science offers a way to reconcile these two seemingly disparate theories. Complexity theory,
which is also known as chaos theory, has as it a goal nothing less then a new scientific revolution, a new paradigm for regarding universe. In Complexity: The Emerging
Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (1992), journalist M. Mitchell Waldrop documents the endeavors of an eclectic band of scientists, which includes Nobel laureates such as Kenneth Arrow
and physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who are working to determine natural laws that would account for seemingly chaotic events. Waldrop tells the story of behind the founding of the Santa
Fe Institute (SFI) (Diefenbacher 54). SFIs goal is to create a research community to pursue emerging science, and a particular focus of this community is on the science of complexity,
which examines underlying patterns and regularities behind a wide variety of natural phenomena (Diefenbacher 54). Complexity theory starts with the observation that all complex systems, whether they are ecosystems,
individual organisms, or economics, have certain characteristics in common. Complex systems, such as these, will tend to self-organize and proceed through cycles of growth, mass extinction (business failures, when speaking
of the economy), regeneration and evolution. What this implies, according to complexity theorists, is a counterbalancing force to the second law of thermodynamics. If these scientists are correct, then
entropy is not the total answer. Waldrop likes to relate complexity theory to economic situations as a means for explaining the general precepts of the theory thus far. However, the
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