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effective complexity: a standalone construct

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Complexity science

the length of a concise description of a system's regularities, excluding its random features.

In complexity science, effective complexity refers to the length of a concise description of a system's regularities, excluding its random features. This meaning comes from Gell-Mann (1996) in Complexity.[1]

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  1. Gell-Mann, M., & Lloyd, S. (1996). Information measures, effective complexity, and total information. Complexity, 2(1), 44-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199609/10)2:1<44::aid-cplx10>3.0.co;2-x

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