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There are, however, on this planet phenomena that are hidden in plain sight. These are the phenomena that we study as complex systems: the convoluted exhibitions of the adaptive world—from cells to societies.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The questions shift from what can scale to what should . This is the great work of our time: not just building what spreads, but what matters. Not just making things people want, but cultivating the desire for what’s worth wanting.
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Parc was "effectively non-profit" because of our agreement with Xerox, which also included the ability to publish our results in public writings (this was a constant battle with Xerox). In the end, all the technologies got out in useful ways. ARPA was non-profit, but had many commercial spin-offs, and this was regarded as "the way things should be"... See more
worrydream.com • http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/
When something happens to the expectation value, is that actually also what happens over a long time to the thing that we are observing?
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Margaret J. Wheatley: The Unplanned Organization
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The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the public is that scientists solve problems; in reality, scientists are primarily concerned with creating them. https://t.co/3t14tECcCN
This region of the dynamic spectrum, where outdated order dissolves into a creative and responsive chaos from which novel order can emerge, is often referred to as “the edge of chaos.” Stuart Kaufman suggested: “The best place for a system to be, in order to respond appropriately to a constantly changing world, is at the edge of chaos.” He
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