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The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
This is social autopoiesis.
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
the Cartesian division, the humanities concentrating on the res cogitans and the natural sciences on the res extensa.
Fritjof Capra • The Systems View of Life
As we discuss in Section 4.3, the essential properties of a living system are emergent properties – properties that are not found in any of the parts but emerge at the level of the system as a whole.
Fritjof Capra • The Systems View of Life
whether and to what extent the emergent properties can be explained in terms of the elements of the lower level.
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Through gravity everything is connected,
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
a “complex” system like a weather front, living organism, or pre-avalanche snow-covered mountainside contains numerous parts that do change in response to their communication and interaction. This process can create feedback loops begetting “emergent properties” that differ radically from the system’s constituent parts or its previous state.