Sublime

The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.

In a 1998 Nature article, Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz articulated a mathematical model for what they called “small-world networks.”

Chris Langton’s theories about the generative power of liquid networks are developed in his essay “Life at the Edge of Chaos.”

“toy” models of economies—simple models that are so abstract they bear little resemblance to reality.