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	Although Complexity Theory is usually an advanced topic in computer science, recently it has become important to understand just why things are organized the way they are. As such it impinges on Physics, and may change the way we look at self-organization.		Although Complexity Theory is usually an advanced topic in computer science, recently it has become important to understand just why things are organized the way they are. As such it impinges on Physics, and may change the way we look at self-organization.
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	When energy is high enough, it is chaotic, but as Entropy increases, energy is drained away and some of it gets caught in the dimensional structure of space precipitating out into forms of order.		When energy is high enough, it is chaotic, but as Entropy increases, energy is drained away and some of it gets caught in the dimensional structure of space precipitating out into forms of order.
	As energy continues to drain, the energy needed to maintain a particular structure of space, sometimes gets drained away, and releases the energy that was stored in that spatial structure back into the environment increasing the local energy levels temporarily, and reducing the order to smaller more stable energy/spatial structures. Thus Entropy at different levels of energy can either form new order, or reduce order to simpler structures.		As energy continues to drain, the energy needed to maintain a particular structure of space, sometimes gets drained away, and releases the energy that was stored in that spatial structure back into the environment increasing the local energy levels temporarily, and reducing the order to smaller more stable energy/spatial structures. Thus the same level of Entropy at different levels of energy can either form new order, or reduce order to simpler structures.

	When energy is increased in a system, first the energy causes larger structures to form, and then it makes the space more chaotic as the energy/entropy balance increases. If energy keeps increasing, Entropy begins increasing to compensate, and order begins to precipitate out again.		When energy is increased in a system, first the energy causes larger structures to form, and then it makes the space more chaotic as the energy/entropy balance increases. If energy keeps increasing, Entropy begins increasing to compensate, and order begins to precipitate out again.
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	====Cellular Automata and the Discovery of Oscillating Order/Chaos systems====		====Cellular Automata and the Discovery of Oscillating Order/Chaos systems====

	The idea that Order and Chaos alternate in an incremental system, flies in the face of our understanding of Entropy as a breaking down of complexity, ~~however~~, to counter our reluctance to accept this concept, we must notice that the order of our universe is strangely inconsistent, and that the second law on which we base our understanding of Entropy, is limited to an equilibrium state, and doesn't adequately describe the state where energy is being increased or decreased within the system. If we can accept that assertion, then we need to look no closer than to our periodic table to see that order is not always consistent.		The idea that Order and Chaos alternate in an incremental system, flies in the face of our understanding of Entropy as a breaking down of complexity, and fits our energy/entropy balance model. However, to counter our reluctance to accept this concept, we must notice that the order of our universe is strangely inconsistent, and that the second law on which we base our understanding of Entropy, is limited to systems that start and stop at an equilibrium state, and doesn't adequately describe the state where energy is being increased or decreased within the system. If we can accept that assertion, then we need to look no closer than to our periodic table to see that order is not always consistent.

	You would think that the atomic weight of an atom would go up in regular increments, but as you get further and further into the periodic table, the increments get further and further apart, and the order seems to break down into large gaps where elements that were once predicted, were not found. Some of this can be explained by radioactive decay but in some cases the gaps are there simply because the elements were never created. Perhaps order is not as simple as we would like to think.		You would think that the atomic weight of an atom would go up in regular increments, but as you get further and further into the periodic table, the increments get further and further apart, and the order seems to break down into large gaps where elements that were once predicted, were not found. Some of this can be explained by radioactive decay but in some cases the gaps are there simply because the elements were never created. Perhaps order is not as simple as we would like to think.
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	====The Power Curve and the precipitation of order====		====The Power Curve and the precipitation of order====

	If this theory is correct, then we would expect the power curve to have longer and longer plateaus as the amount of entropy increases, and it takes more and more energy to create the dynamism that causes the next band of chaos to form. Further we would expect that our universe would be made up of elements that had molecular weights that fell further and further apart on the periodic table, and that we would have aggregation of galaxies that is more prevalent than was originally thought.		If this theory is correct, then we would expect the power curve to have longer and longer plateaus as the amount of entropy increases, and it takes more and more energy to create the dynamism that causes the next band of chaos to form. Further we would expect that our universe would be made up of elements that had atomic or molecular weights that fell further and further apart on the periodic table, and that we would have aggregation of galaxies that is more prevalent than was originally thought.

	There is one major problem with this theory, and that is that it flies in the face of the first law of thermodynamics that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. If energy can't be created, where is all this energy needed to create the new plateaus on the power curve coming from?		There is one major problem with this theory, and that is that it flies in the face of the first law of thermodynamics that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. If energy can't be created, where is all this energy needed to create the new plateaus on the power curve coming from?

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= The Energy Theory of Complexity

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	# To promote the idea that other forms of emergence often echo Darwinism		# To promote the idea that other forms of emergence often echo Darwinism

	=== The Energy Theory of Complexity ==		=== The Energy Theory of Complexity ===

	Einstein stated the basic law of conversion of mass into energy as E=MC<sup>2</sup> What this means is that matter is a special form of energy. The Energy theory of Complexity takes things one step further, and says that all forms of complexity are really just forms of energy that are protected from entropic reduction by the high dimensionality of space.		Einstein stated the basic law of conversion of mass into energy as E=MC<sup>2</sup> What this means is that matter is a special form of energy. The Energy theory of Complexity takes things one step further, and says that all forms of complexity are really just forms of energy that are protected from entropic reduction by the high dimensionality of space.

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