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The 10 features of complex systems: Part 1
Simplifying Complexity
The Importance of Numerosity in Complex Systems
In your book, or James Ladyman, you say numerosity of interactions or parts can produce dramatic differences in behavior. Numerosity is maybe a bit of a strange word. It just means many, many things are interacting in many ways and many times. There is a fun example, which is an ant colony. How many ants does it take for a colony to function in the way we see it functioning in the forest? You know, the smallest brain we know about is I think 300 something neurons. And then it goes up to millions and trillions and so on in more developed brains.
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