Frankly, this question is what made me to start this blog up in the first place. A simple question like this is doomed to no simple answer. On the other hand, it really depends on your understanding of the difference between simplicity and complexity you probably carry from your kindergarten days. I won’t try to shake your world on that one. But, in my humble(st) opinion, simplicity is a main building block of what this world is all about. What more, complexity is but a superset of simplicity and subject to interactions as such. To make it more clear, we constitute nuclei of what we know as a “society”. Therefore we are simple, but the system we form with other humans and interactions we make is what makes it complex. If we apply the same scale to ourselves we open up another level of both physical and mental complexity. Ultimately, we can break it down to protons, electrons and neutrons – the indivisible unique entities we are made of. It is safe to assume that quantity is, in part, responsible for the existence of complexity as a concept. But, isn’t this derivation just another interaction, now at the conceptual level, employing a concept on concepts? How is this even possible? An equivalent in engineering would be using a tool as a building block of a machine rather than using a tool to build a building block of a machine.

I’ll end this post here. It will all fit nicely when I get to Part X.

Stay tuned!

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