Artificial Life (AL) and Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) represent interrelated fields that explore how individual, relatively simple entities – be they digital organisms, autonomous agents or ...

Discussion of the concept of lever points from emergence theory as a tool for understanding and acting as revolutionaries in different moments. “Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

Last week, the S&P 500 turned positive for 2020. On its face, this makes no sense at all. Covid-19 hospitalizations are still increasing in many states, unemployment is sky high, and we’re in the ...

Have you ever seen a starling murmuration? This video captures a beautiful one, where “hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through the sky.” ...

Fleming, L., and O. Sorenson. "Technology as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data." Research Policy 30, no. 7 (August 2001).

Scientists studied the adaptive immune system as a kind of artificial intelligence that can be trained to produce the correct response to invasion by pathogens. This work may lead to more effective ...

I’m a psychiatrist, working at the interface of brain and behaviour. Should I understand my patients as the products of neuronal firing and wiring—chemistry and biology? Or as psychological beings ...

The grid is in crisis, facing coinciding pressures including electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from data centers, and grid technology updates like digitalization and artificial ...

Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo demonstrated how the adaptive immune system uses a method similar to reinforcement learning to control the ...