Re: Stephen Wolfram vs. Charles Darwin on natural selection

In article <geac95$2hs3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dkomo <dkomo871@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have yet to see a good quantitative measure of complexity. I don't
think the essence of complexity can be captured quantitatively.

How about the following?

The more ways a system can be broken (e.g., its properties changed
in some way), the more complex is the system.

Not in the case of parasites. In general, I don't think complexity is
correlated to organismic fitness.

It cerainly is not. It's would be silly to argue that bacteria are more
complex than mammals, yet the former constitute majority of not
only cell count but a biomass on this planet. If fitness is capacity
to reproduce, bacteria are more fit than mammals.

DK


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