Stabby-

From link


5. For any nonlinear, far-from-equilibrium hierarchical system, the average survival time for all entities within that system (taken together from all hierarchical levels) is maximized when maximum complexity (as defined above) prevails at every hierarchical level.

Example: The evolution of life on earth has (with some reversals) tended to result in increasing complexity at all levels within the biosphere over time, probably due (in part) to the survival-time advantages which such increased-complexity provides. This fact is clearly reflected both in the fossil record and in evidence for repeated genome doubling throughout evolutionary history. (Interestingly, since neo-Darwinists such as Stephen Jay Gould can’t explain this evident evolutionary fact of increasing complexity in the biosphere, they have often adopted the bold strategy of flatly denying it.).7
Taking the 4th law of hierarchy and this 5th law of hierarchy together suggests that
nonlinear complex hierarchical physical systems will tend to move towards their optimum of maximum, hierarchically balanced complexity from alternatingly opposite directions as we move up and down their holistic hierarchical levels.


Does this really contradict Gould (Neo-Darwinian) theory?

What are your thoughts: is complexity inevitable?

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gallo

No he didn't. In one of his essays he explained the "drunkard's walk" that explains an increase in complexity.