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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Scaling in Complex Systems
One of the important ideas in complex systems is that there are some systems that are the same in some sense at different scales. If you have many, many scales at which it behaves in a rough way, calculus no longer is a good tool for thinking about the system. Another example of this is Mandelbrok, where you haven't mentioned the coastline of England. And if you combine those two ideas, you realize that you have to describe things in a multi-scale way.
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