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Game of Life

Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.

Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.

Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.

Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

Play here

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Can you make every cell blink at least once starting with a finite number of initial clicks?

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...Numbers are but abstractions of complexity. (...) Through simplification we discover complexity.

Jennifer Wells, in “Complexity and Sustainability ” ( p. 162, 2013).

What are numbers?

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if you keep selecting the first link (after the epistemology part) on any wikipedia page and keep doing it, you will eventually get caught in a cycle of Wikipedia articles of philosophy, existence, ontology and philosophy again. 

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The Public Goods Game

Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene explains the Public Goods Game, and how its outcomes vary across cultures. This Carnegie Council event took place on Novem...

Why wouldn’t you share all the money?

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Analyzing collective action - Elinor Ostrom

Interesting paper, exploring the new methods to analyze collective actions on the basis of structural variables and core relationships and their combination.

relevant structural variables for successful collective action are: 

1. the number of participants involved

2. whether benefits are subtractive or fully shared (i.e.,public goods vs common-pool resources)

3. the heterogeneity of participants

4. face-to-face communication.

5. information about past actions;

6. how individuals are linked; and

7. whether individuals can enter or exit voluntarily

Core relationships that influence cooperation:

1. Reputation

2. Trust

3. Reciprocity

changing one variable might inherently change other variables.

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Complexity Explorer

Complexity Explorer provides online courses and educational materials about complexity science. Complexity Explorer is an education project of the Santa Fe Institute - the world headquarters for complexity science.

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. Engagement with the private sector is increasing for think tanks across the world, and while some have been doing it for years, for others it is a new practice (particularly for those in low-...

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how do we navigate chaos?

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System Change

Frameworks of the field

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Type theory is any class of formal system some of which can serve as a foundation for all  mathematics.

Wikipedia

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Making Sense Podcast #86 — From Cells to Cities | Sam Harris

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey West about how biological and social systems scale, the significance of fractals, the prospects of radically extending human life, the concept of “emergence” in complex systems, the importance of cities, and other topics.

A matter of scale

Biology done from a physicist’s perspective

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by Robert M. May

“The world would be a better place, May argued, if every you student were given a pocket calculator and encouraged to play with the logistic difference equation” (James Gleick, Chaos, 1987).

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One of the founding papers for cybernetics

“active-purposeful-second order predictive behaviour”

“directed by negative feedback-loops”

“the behaviouristic approach consists of the examination of the output of the object and the relation of this output to the input”

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CYBERNETICS: The super science of interconnectedness; definitions, origins, & map.

CYBERNETICS has the capability no other science has. It deals with very complex systems such as those that have a purpose, whether natural or man made. It ha...

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Marble adding machine

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd A simulation of the machine: https://leloctai.tk/game/ My marble adding machine in action. It adds binary numbers.