Reaction is when an interaction influences future interactions. Positive feedback sounds like it's a good thing, but it can also be a very bad thing. Negative feedback is often a phenomenon which is even built in at times when you think of engineering things. Too much of anything is usually not good.
In our last episode with Tyler Marghetis, we learnt about how a complex system can tip from one state into another. But what happens when systems don't tip or fail? What makes a system robust?
In today's episode, we're talking with Karoline Wiesner, a Professor of Complexity Science in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She breaks down the characteristics of a robust system, through the context of an incredibly robust complex system — the ant colony.
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