Complexity
By Julian Gavaghan UPDATED: 16:51 GMT, 2 February 2012 A sophisticated underground ant city once populated by millions of insects has been discovered by a team of scientists.
Underground ant city in Brazil that 'rivals the Great Wall of China' with a labyrinth of highways
What is Emergent Thinking? | David Brooks
With rendition switcher David Brooks: Carl Popper, the great philosopher said, “All problems are either clouds or clocks.” A clock is a… to understand a clock, you can take it apart, it’s individual pieces and you study the pieces and then you can understand how a clock works.
Vladimir Dimitrov Introduction Chaos and Complexity theory studies nonlinear processes: Chaos explores how complexly interwoven patterns of behaviour can emerge out of relatively simply-to-describe nonlinear dynamics, while Complexity tries to understand how relatively simply-to-describe patterns can emerge out of complexly interwoven dynamics. Both Chaos and Complexity build the core of Complexity Science actively promoted in the research publications of the Santa Fe Institute in USA established in 1984.
iecps Institute of Studies of Complexity and Systems Thinking
At a closed meeting held in Boston in October 2009, the room was packed with high-flyers in foreign policy and finance: Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker, Andy Haldane, and Joseph Stiglitz, among others, as well as representatives of sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and endowments worth more than a trillion dollars—a significant slice of the world’s wealth. The session opened with the following telling question: “Have the last couple of years shown that our traditional finance/risk models are irretrievably broken and that models and approaches from other fields (for example, ecology) may offer a better understanding of the interconnectedness and fragility of complex financial systems?” Science is a creative human enterprise. Discoveries are made in the context of our creations: our models and hypotheses about how the world works.
On Early Warning Signs
Much of my current research concerns the relation of science and theology.
The Quantum Theorist David Bohm: “De-fragmenting” the World | Michael.V.DiFuccia
Complex Systems
Fractal Geometry