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Complexity of Coupled and Merged Systems

It is popular in the conventional ‘qualitative’ approach to complexity – whereby a metric of complexity isn’t at all considered – to say that “systems are complex” when “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. Physics teaches us that most, if not all systems in the universe follow this rule. Spontaneous emergence of structure or new hierarchies has been taking place since the Big Bang…