- Title
- Simplicity: a design pattern for ideas
- Creator
- Nesbitt, Keith V.
- Relation
- Applied Informatics Research Group Working Paper Series Number 3, September 2013
- Relation
- http://silverbullet.newcastle.edu.au/air
- Resource Type
- working paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Nature is composed of many complex systems. No system is more complex than the nature that governs the creation of ideas. Yet how many patterns are needed to model such complexity? The search for common patterns that govern the nature of complex systems is a fundamental goal of both science and art. New ideas may provide solutions to such problems but then the question arises as to how ideas are created, and whether they might be created in the same form? Creating ideas is in essence a design problem. Problems require solutions and ideas are designed to provide them. One way to solve common design problems is to adopt, or adapt, a solution that has been useful in the past. Design patterns are intended as a more formal way of capturing these good designs, or design practices, so they can be reused. Although patterns were first introduced in the realm of Architecture they were quickly adopted by the Software Engineering community. In this paper, the use of patterns is adapted to the more general realm of idea generation. In particular this paper introduces a specific design pattern call Simplicity that is intended to help with the practical exploration of a dynamic design space that is complete and allows for both inconsistent states and yet overall consistency. Simplicity is a pattern that reframes a number of well-known concepts such as complimentary dualities, recursion, self-similarity and symmetry to try and provide an alternative understanding of the way ideas are created and contextualised. This paper, as it stands is incomplete, requiring much further mathematical formalisation to take it beyond the current pattern definition. Despite this shortfall, it is hoped that the current description may provide a useful step in the search for fundamental patterns that allow for unification of ideas across disciplines, a notion that has been termed Consilience.
- Subject
- nature; creation of ideas; design patterns; design; simplicity; creativity; universal; consilience; symmetry
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1037500
- Identifier
- uon:13440
- Language
- eng
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