III. John H. Holland and the "Multiplier Effect"

January 10, 2015

Lovisa Sundin

III. John H. Holland and the "Multiplier Effect"

The mechanisms that afford the hierarchy its position as the central architectural principle in complexity can be understood at greater depth with reference to the signal/boundary framework by John H Holland.

January 10, 2015

Lovisa Sundin

Hierarchy Theory

II. Herbert A. Simon and "Near-Decomposability"

January 10, 2015

Lovisa Sundin

Hierarchy Theory

II. Herbert A. Simon and "Near-Decomposability"

“Why is reality structured at all?” was what Herbert Simon, an extraordinary polymath regarded as one of last century’s most influential thinkers, asked himself in his watchmaker parable from the article “The Architecture of Complexity” (1962).

January 10, 2015

Lovisa Sundin

Hierarchy Theory

I. A Spectral Mosaic Poised on Flux

January 10, 2015

Lovisa Sundin

Hierarchy Theory

Quite possibly you too have walked across an abandoned university campus, numb from a last-minute revision-session in the library, with a quivering kind of wonder at the contrast between the physical reality surrounding you, and the cerebral strives in abstract-land that left your mind in such a somber state.