Simple Systems: A Holistic, Postmodern Alternative to the Oppressive and Outdated Study of Complex Systems Semiotics, Transformative Hermeneutics, and Applications

Much of complex systems research today deals with, understandably, the study of complexity. This is not surprising in itself, since the real world is arguably a complex affair and academics are easily distracted by shiny things, but as theorists from Sartre to Kolmogorov to Jesus have convincingly argued, those who try to understand the essence of complexity using kilogram minds (with apologies to dualists) are doomed to atrophied muscles, bad tempers, and no girlfriends. As an alternative to the masochistic leanings of much of the complex systems community, we propose a postmodern alternative that fully incorporates contemporary social theories of shifting cultural paradigms, ultimately allowing an entirely introspective examination of the universe, namely: simple systems. We prove the completeness and consistency of our axiomatic, organic, oak-barrel aged framework, thereby reducing its intrinsic hermeneutics, metaphorically, to little more than a dog chasing its own tail. We also successfully reconcile its epistemic paradoxes with Planck’s constant, and then discuss more theoretical issues. It’s all pretty deep, man.