This essay systematizes metatheoretical issues elicited by a structural notion found in the literature of complexity science and integral theory . [1] We can define the effective complexity (EC) of an entity as the length of a highly compressed description of its regularities.[2] Metatheoretical problems arise by virtue of EC being a condensed theoretical description of singled out properties and behavioral regularities of the scrutinized phenomenon. Insofar as analysis is

Fritjof Capra's 1975 The Tao of Physics is a book on the similarities of science and religion. Science is paradigmatic to the West, religion to the East. The former investigates reality via rationality, the latter via intuition. Capra's thesis is that findings in modern physics are similar to the "truths" of Eastern religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. The interconnectedness of the subatomic world, the nature of space-time, are two examples that show how the religions o

This is my morning routine, which suggests either discipline or a failure of imagination: I walk my dog half-asleep at five, run in a state of permanent grouchiness at five-thirty, and force myself to box at six with a rugged, smirking, forty-five-year-old welterweight named Oscar—who, as of November fifteenth, two-thousand-twenty-five, still fights and wins amateur bouts. His opponents are often heavier. Sometimes embarrassingly so. He hasn’t lost in years, if testimony is t