This was a talk presented at meeting with a Chinese VIP visiting delegation. Held in Room E & F, Johnson Center, George Mason University on 4 August 4. The delegation, a group of scientists and government officials, came to GMU to get information on possible joint research ventures to be supported by the Chinese National Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Science Foundation. The delegation was invited to the campus by John Warfield and Kingsley Haynes, with presentations given by John and also TIPP staff members. Chinese persons attending were: Ruwei Dai, Weixuan Xu, Yuanji Tu, Yuan You Xin, Bai Yi-long, Frederick (Fengming) Song, Liu Zhadong, Siwei Cheng, Rem Fumao and Shouyang Wang. Also present were Chinese students attending GMU - Qu Duan and Le Ling. The manuscript is a collection of seven separate transparencies which show the several ways that John developed categories for explaining and portraying complexity. Titles of these transparencies:

1) "Categorizing Complexity" 2) "Organizing Complexity From the Bottom Up"

3) "Constructing categories for Complexity From Over 500 Transparencies"

4) "Constructing Categories for Complexity From 21 Essays on Complexity" 5) "Categories Field: Essays on Complexity" 6) "Categories of Laws of Complexity" 7) "Categories of Laws of Complexity: Behaviorally-based(70%), Media-based(10%), Mathematically based(30%).