Sean Brady: Complexity is where we look at the key concepts of complexity. Concepts like self-organization, adaptation and scaling are critical to complex systems thinking. He says if you have evidence that a system is losing resilience, that could be a call to action. We're not prophets, but we can do a pretty good job detecting that resilience is dropping, he says.
A fascinating property of a system's behaviour is its ability to change, and change quickly. For example, how does an economy go from boom to bust so suddenly and unpredictably? That is to say, how does it 'tip' from one behaviour to another? What are these tipping points, and are they really as unpredictable as they seem?
In today's episode, we speak to Tyler Marghetis, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California Merced. He pulls apart the underlying reasons why the behaviour of a complex system can radically change. He also poses the question, can you tell when a system is about to tip?
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