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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

COMPLEXITY

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The Balance Between Criticality and Heterogeneity

I want to go back just briefly to the frontiers piece, heterogeneity extends criticality. Because something that comes up a lot at SFI is the way that given the enormous breadth of the possible, what we find in complex systems is that they actually inhabit very narrow channels of possibility. So this question of the balance between these two things. I'd like to hear you talk a little bit more about criticality in light of all of the different ways that we see this manifesting in the world.

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