Fascinating. I can’t be any help with the math, but here is a question that occurs to me. From a book at hand I will pull a complex thought:

“On the one hand, we can understand how the bodily changes, and the bodily feeling or experience, could be bound together as one thing: a whole bodily state.”

Suppose I rearrange the words of this sentence at random.

“together how bodily and understand or changes whole experience one, the bodily could, bound On the be hand bodily thing a, : feeling can one the as state we.”

Unsurprisingly, the Emergent Structural Complexity for both is almost identical (100.42 vs 99.13). (Surprisingly, they are not exactly the same.) But the second collection of words is either much less complex than the first, or much more complex — depending on how we want to think of complexity.

I think what we are really trying to measure here is meaning. It’s a tall order.