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To capture the complex and complicated nature of real economies, we need to thoroughly explore the wilderness of bounded rationality, entering through both gates.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
science as ‘PNP’.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
In some environments in the universe, the most efficient way for humans to thrive might be to alter their own genes.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
as cities grow and their networks evolve, the area or volume of the networks needed to keep them functionally connected tends to become smaller on a per capita basis. For example, in larger cities more people can share the same bus or segment of road or sewer pipe.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
life's agentive response to a range of pressures and constraints: “
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.