Complexity and Chance

Abstract

The understanding of chance challenges the human intellect since the very beginning of philosophical query. Chance has been longtime a privileged terrain for non scientific speculations, hardly and late formalized through probability theories of twentieth century. To understand the nature of its laws requires a synthetic consideration of all sciences, which is indeed a philosophical task. One of these laws, whose first version was discovered by Boltzmann during the nineteen century, concerns the relation of complexity with chance. This is foundational relation where a number of concepts like time, evolution, interdependence, interaction, are entangled in a dialectic tissue inherent to their own motion. This article is an invitation to think about this deep relation between chance and complexity.