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Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West

COMPLEXITY

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The Pursuit of Simplicity in Complex Systems

This week's episode focuses on the need to investigate the enduring allure of the simple. In this you say, simplicity wants to reduce the multi dimensional complexity of the pandemic to one or two simple factors. There seems to be a great deal of disagreement about just how ch and what kind of simplicity matters in understanding these phenomena. So where do you personally see us as a research community, having identified salient simplicities?

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