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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Multi-Scale of Complex Systems

Herbert Simon defined complex systems as a system made up of large number of parts that interact in a non-simple way. The trick about understanding complex systems is that what's important is whether there's a long description in scale at different scales, he says. "If you have interactions that give rise to all these different kinds of behaviors, that's complexity"

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