discussion of some general characteristics of signaling networks, this paper explores the adaptive evolution of complexity in a …

Computational mechanics, an approach to structural complexity, defines a process's causal states and gives a procedure … representations. Further results relate measures of randomness and structural complexity obtained from e-machines to those from …

. There are, however, two philosophical ideas that seem crucial in considering the very definition of complexity. The first is …

In this paper, I formally define uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity both as measures of problems and environments …

complexity. As a minimum, the terms, system, complexity, and adaptation as used in this paper need an explanation. The second … section (II.) is a sketch of cultural complexity in the real world. I will use Pueblo tribal laws and other ethnographic … material as examples of that complexity. This part draws on anthropological fieldwork on the customary laws of Southwestern …