A New Quantitative Definition of the Complexity of Organized Matters

Table 1

Comparison of the proposed definition with the existing ones regarding criteria.

Definitions of complexity	Objects (Prob./Det.)	Simply regular	Simply random	Key features of highly organized objects			Computability
				Descriptional	Computational	Distributional
Kolmogorov complexity		✓		✓
Effective complexity		✓	✓	✓
Logical depth		✓	✓		✓
Effective measure complexity		✓	✓			✓	✓
Statistical complexity		✓	✓			✓	✓
Proposed definition	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓