Entropy, Volume 27, Issue 8
2025 August - 115 articles
Cover Story: The image depicts system and environmental complexity as functions of scale (the level of detail in their descriptions), with system complexity exceeding environmental complexity at all scales—a necessary condition for effective adaptation. This requirement, which we term the multi-scale law of requisite variety, frames complexity not merely as an abstract concept but as a property essential for successful interaction. Below the curves, the grids represent successive coarse-graining, illustrating how finer-scale descriptions can be systematically aggregated into larger-scale ones. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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