Sorry to take so long to get back to this (I've been away)
my point was more that increased complexity does not necessarily result in a better design, in many cases something can be simplified to gain an advantage -- less weight, more efficient use of energy.
SaviorMachine writes:
A very weak definition of complexity, such as the size of genome, would be sufficient to explain an increase in the maximum complexity of all species under evolution.
size of genome is not enough if one has many repeated sequences and another has more varied sequences, and this gets into information theory to define the complexity based on "compressed information" similar to making a ZIP file of the code and the larger 'zipped genome' would be more complex.
would telepathic amoebas be more complex than non-telepathic ones? depends on whether the result would be more of a 'hive mind' being than an assembly of individuals continuing to do same old tasks without specialization, for in one sense all multicell organisms are an assembly of single cell 'individuals' working together telepathically: the complexity comes from specialization.
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