The Santa Fe Institute is a consortium of over-decorated scientists. The founders said, what if you make energy information computation and so on? The foreground and you make the disciplines case studies. It just creates this incredible shared language that spans many of the disciplines. So it's incredibly synthetic. And these founders in the 80s realize that and the power that was in that.
What is complexity science, and why should you care about it? Well, complexity science is all about understanding the systems that are all around us — systems like the economy, your body, cities, companies, and the environment. To properly understand how these systems work, and how they fail, you need to understand complexity science. Because complexity science provides us with the underlying principles that govern these systems.
In today's episode, we speak to David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. He explains the underlying principles of complex systems and what they have in common — even if they all seem completely unrelated. He also talks through the history of complexity science and provides his top three takeaways on how you can start to think about complex systems.
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