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There are many definitions of complexity, all of them inadequate. “Any definition of complexity is context dependent, even subjective” (Gell-Mann, 1994).
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Pismen, L. (2018). Swings Through the Ages. In: The Swings of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99777-3_1
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