miosim comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: miosim 25 November 2013 01:03:13AM 0 points [-]

In this case it is obvious. However, in general a system could be less complex than complexity of its elements. We don't have agreeable way to measure complexity but for now I would argue that complexity of molecule of water (its complete physical and chemical description) is more complex than sum of those molecules in form of a drop of water. Unfortunately so far there's neither accepted approach to measure nor define complexity.