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TOPIC: ISSUE25 - "Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage is to move in the opposite direction-in other words, to make things as simple as possible."
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TIME: 01:29:39
DATE: 2010/2/7 18:14:38
I cannot quite agree with the author's assertion. Just like every coin has two sides, or every phenomenon has different explanations in different conditions, the relationship between complexity and simplicity is various when we take different stands.
Firstly, I think that not anyone can make things bigger and more complex as the author says. When in academic field, many researchers can't make a big success and remain unknown or not famous. Why? One of the primary explanations is that they are unable to make their researches or studies more complex. They just stay in the surface instead of explore into the very heart of what they are focusing on. If they were aware of how to make things complex and make more links between the surface and the heart, they would be likely to accomplish great mission and even to be well known around the world.
Next, the author seems to make a conclusion that to make things bigger and more complex requires less effort and courage than to make things as simple as possible. It is not exact, as I will discuss below. When we talk about the trend of life in the future, we always predicate that it will be more and more simple, convenient, and fast-pacing. So simple here really need real effort and courage, for instance, scientists are finding easier ways to locate the special gene (maybe the one which causes Parkinson, or the one which leads to ill temper), and technologist or engineers are doing their best to make the web easier to operate (maybe the user just need one click instead of making lots of boring choices). I must say that what behind the convenience and simplicity is complexity. We can neither ignore the great and difficult work to sequence the gene of human beings and the great courage to shoulder the skepticism of the mass, nor can we ignore tens of thousands of bytes calculating by the CPU and the courage to be responsible for the possible defeat. Thus, sometimes we can say that complexity is the building blocks (积木) of simplicity, which needs more real effort and courage.
Finally, there are many situations that need to be made more complex as well as simple, for everything has two sides--the complex one and the simple one. If we only take one side, we will always make a bias, or a thoughtless decision. A good example is the great physicist, Albert Einstein, who devoted himself to simplifying the world of universe but failed. Maybe the universe is too complex, although Einstein had taken the complexity into account; he had to realize that from the complex view, the universe is, indeed, complex enough. Maybe, the theory of chaos can be a supplement to the Einstein’s theory. The theory of chaos is based on the second law of thermodynamics, though not as precise as the equation of Einstein’s famous E=mc2, it can explain many complex phenomena on the planet. Maybe these two can make a conduct* to decorate our world both in simple and complex ways.
In sum, I should admit that sometimes the simplicity is the final purpose while the complexity is the methods; sometimes both of them are of importance and need real effort and courage.
基因定位技术,网路操作——》是由复杂的方法构成了简单的操作(复杂构成简单)
爱因斯坦简化宇宙,混沌理论——》复杂和简单的方法很重要
总体评分:5分
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