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Date Posted: 09:36:04 09/02/00 Sat
Author: Mariah
Subject: Intricately Simple
In reply to: avalanche 's message, "Re: IQ" on 08:32:27 09/02/00 Sat

There's a strange thing about simplicity. It seems that simplicity works like a circle. If one starts with the simple, then goes to the complex, it seems that you arrive back at the simple once again.

However, it seems that the simplicity that is reached once one has gone through the intricate is a different form of simplicity, full of implication and much fuller a simplicity than the original naive simplicity.

Einstein's work showed this. After all the tensor equations, and the complicated equations, and the intricate thought experiments came the one exclamation point of simplicity

E=Mc^2

That was probably one of the most simple equations ever devised. Yet, it holds much mystery inside it. And, it has far reaching implications. So, initial simplicity is good, but it seems that intricate simplicity is far reaching with many implications, whereas 'naive simplicity' is a thing all to itself, with few implications and little depth.

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I wish, sometimes, that I could see the simple once again. Simple is like virgin, you can never go back and be it again, at least not in the exact same way. You can go that circutous route which again brings you back to the beginning, but the trip has always changed you in ways that make it impossible to be that very first thing in its pure simplicity.

There are advantages to all three, though. There's an advantage of those with the pure simple mind, those with the view of the intricate, and those with the view of the intricately simple.

> your method was the most complex one to use,
> however, one must wonder if using the most complex
> method is in fact the most intelligent method to use,
> i would say no. One must always first try the most
> simple method, if that method doesn't work, then
> proceed to a more complex method, if the simple method
> DOES work, then there is no need to go to the extra
> effort of the more complex method because the simple
> method works just as well (even better considering
> there isn't any effort neccesary as with the complex
> method)

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