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Is there an Edge of Chaos, and if so, can evolution take us to it? Many issues have to be settled before any definitive answer can be given. For quantitative work, we need a good measure of complexity. We suggest that convergence time is an appropriate and useful measure. In the case of cellular automata, one of the advantages of the convergence-time measure is that it can be analytically approximated...