Environmental Complexity

Thesis that complexity of environment drives cognitive evolution; mentioned in relation to sensorimotor organization.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Complexity spectrum of environments
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The graduated range of environment difficulties (six environments) employed to probe how causal emergence relates to performance across challenges.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

environmentconcept0.823
The physical or conceptual space where loose parts are situated.
functional complexityconcept0.822
Flusser’s category of complexity where a system provides a complex use (like chess), enabling creative plays.
structural complexityconcept0.811
Flusser’s category of complexity where the system elements have very complex internal relationships (like apparatus).
Environmental Variablesconcept0.797
Environmental conditionsconcept0.796
The array of different environments (six, on a complexity spectrum) used to test the generality of the alignment hypothesis.
variables in an environmentconcept0.777
The diverse materials, shapes, phenomena, media, sounds, etc. that constitute loose parts and drive inventiveness.
Complexity Theoryframework0.769
The class of explanations from the Santa Fe Institute tradition, including attractor dynamics and emergent order, evaluated as insufficient to fully explain the appearance of living structure
Environmental designconcept0.765
The disciplinary context for Nicholson's theory, bridging architecture, planning, and pedagogy.