

What is complexity science and why should you care about it?
58 snips Oct 31, 2022
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Core Definition of Complexity Science
- Complexity science studies networks of adaptive agents that use energy to store information about the world.
- These adaptive networks include entities like neurons, species, and market traders, focusing mainly on living systems.
History of Complexity Science
- Complexity science has roots in early 20th-century studies of energy, entropy, cybernetics, and information theory.
- Its concepts matured through nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory in the 1960s and 70s.
SFI's Unique Approach
- The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) focuses on energy, information, and computation as the foreground concepts.
- It treats disciplines like physics, biology, and economics as case studies of these core principles.