The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, no...
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
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.
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
