Great paper, a classic. I assigned this as reading to my students. A worthwhile exercise is to try to refute the core idea regarding "essential" vs "accidental"

Great paper, a classic. I assigned this as reading to my students. A worthwhile exercise is to try to refute the core idea regarding "essential" vs "accidental" complexity. You may find you end up disagreeing with him! But that is why I like this paper so much. Agree or disagree, it makes you think, and it's worth thinking about.