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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Power of Qualitative Differences in Complex Systems

Complex system science is about understanding how relationships work, what they mean and how they impact on the behavior of the system. It has to do with the space of possibilities and complex. So I think this idea of qualitative difference is actually structurally important. And a lot of that has been set aside in the effort to quantify the world around us using traditional calculus and statistics. The math that we've been using has forced us to confine our scientific thinking to like a two dimensional part of what is really a three dimensional space.

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