Complexity
* Complexities are inevitable when society has the basics wrong.
* affects decisions.
* also affects planning and certainty.
* arises from facts.
* characteristic of a lack of understanding
  - systems in which many elements are integrated to form a whole
* degenerates into simplicity and ultimately into randomness.
* describes the thought process the brain uses to deal with information.
* emerges from hierarchy.
* evolves mainly through duplications and mutations in structural and control genes.
* factor related to knowledge required by the job.
* familiar theme in the organisational sciences.
* feature of the phenomena most theories aim to explain.
* gives systems the capacity to self-order themselves.
* grows when energy flows.
* has effects
  - moderate effects
* involves making connections and relationships.
* is aggravated by uncertainty
  - also a feature of the neural system
* is an adversary of accountability
  - important topic, as well for finite algebraic structures as for infinite ones
  - born out of simplicity
  - bounded by Order and Disorder
  - caused by the collective behavior of many basic interacting agents
  - concerned with the number of iterations, the depth of the recursion and so on
  - defined by the number of dimensions, or sources of variation, that are related
  - determined by the amount of information in a pattern
  - difficulty
  - grown from simple systems that already work
  - introduced through sorting and searching algorithms
  - involved in searching libraries and other research sources for information
  - measured in the number of objects
  - necessary for stability in any association of plants, birds, animal and pests
  - one of the defining aspects of life
  - possible only when it is liberated from linear, teleological time
  - something which is built up in easy steps from simplicity
* is the creation of increasingly diverse offspring
  - curse of the digital age
  - degree to which an innovation is perceived as difficult to understand our use
  - essence of the technological civilization
  - method necessary to increase higher order thinking
  - nature of Ukrainian history
  - price paid for increased sophistication, thoroughness and accuracy
  - primary difference between the brains of humans and animals
  - prodigy of the world
  - quantity of environmental information present in a landscape
  - scale most appealed to in organic and social evolution
  - science of 'non-linear dynamics'
* looks at how evolving systems function and adapt.
* mainly occurs as linear or exponential in the number of board points.
* means of worst case analysis
  - time and time is money
* new way of viewing the collective behavior of many simple but interacting parts.
* planning goal in and of itself.
* refers to an event of small probability
* refers to the layout of the building or environment
  - variety or diversity of aromas perceived
* reflects complexity.
* requires evidence.
  * There is one for making no assertion of notability which is pretty cut and dry. I would think no context is pretty straight forward as well, if you can't tell what the article is talking about then it has no context. Complexity however is very arbitrary. I have seen numerous debates over if a word is simple or not and many opinions on the same word. But as goblin mentions we could simply use mechanical means to make the call, however I am not a huge fan of that.
* tax burden.
* word used a lot.

### complexity:

Cyclomatic complexity
* count of the number of decision statements in a piece of code.
* is based entirely on the structure of software's control flowgraph
  - the graph theoretical complexity of a computer program's flowchart

Structural complexity
* can alter canopy physiology and defines habitat for canopy-dwelling species.
* refers to how the surface area on a plant is put together.