Jumping Into Someone Else's Discussion About Complexity

[tagonist]

When I lived in Ohio, I did a lot of work with a 1955 Gravely walk-behind tractor.

Comments

[greyhoundliz]

Well, yes. Mechanical complexity and social complexity are very different things, and require different skill sets. I can list -- and you probably can too -- several pre-industrial societies that maintained very complex social interaction patterns, both within and beyond their own cultures

[greyhoundliz]

Part of all complexity, I think, is the consumption of energy to make. So, does complexity as a rule require more energy than simplicity?

[greyhoundliz]

Yeah, I'd say so. We all probably know people who either won't engage with new ideas or who simply assign them categories (moral or other) on the basis of first impressions, then move on. Really grappling with a new idea and fitting it into my existing conceptual matrix of the world and how it works/should work takes effort. But it's certainly a more complex mental process than ignoring it, and I think may result in a more complex conceptual matrix.

(I don't mean to sound like I'm immune to the temptations of ignoring or arbitrarily categorizing ideas. But I do try to fit new things in and make it all make sense somehow.)

[lilybutterland]

I am so out of the loop.

appropriate technology in defense of specialised skills demands a new simple social order ?!?!!?

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