Notes - Pages 1-22

authors motivation
Science has ignored complexity, most programs humans create are fully quantified, but simple rules and complexity have not been used profitably
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key idea
System rules maps to a program, while system behaviors map to instances of computation for that system
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Principle of Computational Equivalence
systemic complexity cooresponds to computation of similar complexity
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Chapter 1 is covered by these pages, it mostly is introduction to the core ideas of the book, followed by areas of science that these ideas can further, and the authors path to developing the ideas and a sort of short biography.