Sublime

In real-world Hamiltonians, position is the variable in which interactions are local.

There is an additional element of importance: these systems usually generate implicit internal models of their environments, models progressively revised and improved as the system accumulates experience. The systems learn.

By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.

some form of complexity theory is required if we are to understand many of the intimate, and patently uncertain, interactions found in modern society.

The smartest minds today—including those studying computers, biology, math, physics—have come to understand that the world no longer adheres to predictable, linear mandates. Instead, life is filled with chaos and complexity, periods of order and disorder, linearity and nonlinearity. In place of steady lines, observers now see loops, spirals, wobble