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What is complexity science and why should you care about it?

Simplifying Complexity

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Is There a Common Way of Understanding the Principles of Systems?

In the early 1910s and teens, a group of artists said is there a different way of looking at other than realistic painting? And first comes analytic Cubism, which is people know that sort of painting from Picasso and Quangri. Then came synthetic Cubism: How did you put those parts together again to represent the scene in a novel way so that you can see the whole differently? That's what we call emergence in our field. It says, we don't want to do reductionism. We're trying to understand how these parts come together to create new patterns and functions.

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