Algorithmic Complexity and Spatial Simplicity

Recently the field of complexity science has emerged as an amalgamation of many different areas borrowing ideas and attracting researchers from the physical, biological and social sciences (Holland 1992; Bak 1996; Kohonen 1997; Fabian 1998; Wolfram 1994; Kauffman 2000). Of late, much of this interdisciplinary research has been facilitated by ideas and tools borrowed from another field, namely, computer science.