High end complexity

Despite the general recognition of complexity as an important concept and decades of work, very little progress has been made in the attempt to define complexity. It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the definition of complex behaviour is itself complex, forming a scale from the simple to the more and more complex. Those systems at the high end of the scale are not at present well modelled, and reasons why this might be the case are presented. The possibility that quantum theories may be able to model such high end complexity is investigated.

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