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Re: the Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion?
Regarding that article above, I honestly think it's related:
The ‘simplest answer’ is not necessarily the one most easily comprehended. Often it is the one with the fewest assumptions, rationalizations, and particularly special cases, or it is the most elegant idea.
Complexity can result, however, from the interactions among two or more simple phenomena. For example, simple fractal geometric rules of repetition, when applied at different scales, can result in apparently complex patterns such as branching river systems and branching trees. Molecular biologists have long puzzled over how simple amino acids made the evolutionary leap to complex DNA; now these researchers are exploring the possibility that a few simple rules may be responsible [Gleick, 1992c].
Regarding that article above, I honestly think it's related:
The ‘simplest answer’ is not necessarily the one most easily comprehended. Often it is the one with the fewest assumptions, rationalizations, and particularly special cases, or it is the most elegant idea.
Complexity can result, however, from the interactions among two or more simple phenomena. For example, simple fractal geometric rules of repetition, when applied at different scales, can result in apparently complex patterns such as branching river systems and branching trees. Molecular biologists have long puzzled over how simple amino acids made the evolutionary leap to complex DNA; now these researchers are exploring the possibility that a few simple rules may be responsible [Gleick, 1992c].
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