Nominator's statement

This work lays out some of the logical reasons behind the need for modularity on complex systems such as the brain. Simon also acknowledges that this may be a limit in our epistemology.

comments

• The citation is in error, since Simon is the sole author of Sciences of the Artificial_. The proper citation for the first publication of this article is H. A. Simon, "The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems", _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_, vol. 106 Dec. 1962): 467--482 Editor comment: We are sorry for the error; H. A. Simon did write the aforementioned article in 1962 as well as a book with the same title in and 1982, 2nd edition).]