Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.