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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Power of Self-Organization in Complex Systems

The second key property of complex systems we should talk about besides emergence is self-organization. If you see a painting, how did it get there? It got there by someone putting dabs of paint in an intentional way. And that's also true when we do engineering, right? We put these parts and we put them exactly where we want them to be.

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