What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such
precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual
neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as
consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures
like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and
the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and
elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer.
In this remarkably accessible and companionable book, leading
complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate,
detailed tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts
that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and
adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad
individuals. Comprehending such systems requires a wholly new
approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism
and that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries. Based on
her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its
interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the
workings of complexity across a broad range of biological,
technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general
principles or laws that apply to all of them. She explores as well
the relationship between complexity and evolution, artificial
intelligence, computation, genetics, information processing, and
many other fields.
Richly illustrated and vividly written, Complexity: A Guided Tour
offers a comprehensive and eminently comprehensible overview of the
ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at
the forefront of this field, and the prospects for the field's
contribution to solving someof the most important scientific
questions of our time.
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