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Simplicity, complexity, emergence

  • 10-03-2014 12:16am
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    take everything
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    http://www.ted.com/talks/george_whitesides_toward_a_science_of_simplicity

    Not sure if this is more suited to Physics or Philosophy.

    This is something that always fascinated me but i've never gotten into it (partly because i don't see much on it anywhere).

    Is there a science of emergence/how complexity emerges from simplicity.
    And anyone with any good links to this stuff.


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    Morbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭Morbert


    take everything wrote: »
    http://www.ted.com/talks/george_whitesides_toward_a_science_of_simplicity

    Not sure if this is more suited to Physics or Philosophy.

    This is something that always fascinated me but i've never gotten into it (partly because i don't see much on it anywhere).

    Is there a science of emergence/how complexity emerges from simplicity.
    And anyone with any good links to this stuff.

    Nonlinear dynamics is a field that uses computers to model properties that emerge from simple but nonlinear models. One of the most famous properties that emerge is chaos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory ).

    More generally, you might want to check out the study of self-organising principles.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

    Note: The talk itself seems to be more about design functionality. Technological innovation would be a part of many different fields (I myself am looking at the construction of devices made from a handful of atoms)


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