Is our universe simple, complex? Or is it both simple and complex? Would simple causes produce complex effects or must all of the complexity that we observe in the effect somehow be cryptically present in the cause? Is complexity a conserved quality, or can we create it from nothing? The other intriguing question is can simple systems produce chaos? These questions have perplexed theologians, philosophers and scientists since antiquity. And I assure you that it will perplex humans as long as their species exist. But there is anecdotal evidence that nature preserves itself in optimally simple forms. The amazing complexity of plants arises from tiny seeds. But the question still lingers of whether such a complexity arises spontaneously as the seed develops or that the ingredients and the codes of the complexity are for the most part compressed in the seed? But there is also anecdotal evidence that human lives and the lives of many species are chaotic. So, the main question that will be addressed in this book is what is the interplay between life and chaos.
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