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As promised, today the last volume of “Complexity Miscellany for Beginners” was released!📢 And guess what? The central topic of this entry is the concept of #emergence, one of the most polysemic notions in #ComplexSystems science./1🔮 #complexitycat 🐈‍⬛ www.complexitycat.org/posts/comple...

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Complexity Miscellany for Beginners: Part III

“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination.” —Oliver Sacks.

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Next week, #complexitycat will publish the final part of our beginner's guide, a series of essays dedicated to introducing the transdisciplinary world of #ComplexSystems science in simple terms. In the meantime, we invite you to check out Part II, which you can find below. 🐈‍⬛👇

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Are you new to #ComplexSystems, #NetworkScience or #ArtificialLife? Part II of our “Complexity Miscellany for Beginners” is out today! From autopoiesis to the edge of chaos, everything with simple analogies and classic examples./1🤓🧩 #complexitycat 🐈‍⬛ www.complexitycat.org/posts/comple...

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Complexity Miscellany for Beginners: Part II

“The head of Matter did that which the energy-beings could do no longer and it wept for all humanity, and for the fragile beauty of the bodies they had once given up, a trillion years ago.” —Isaac Asimov.

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Centuries of ontological dualisms (even recently permeating the literature) have muddied goal-directedness as something mystical. 🔮 It’s time to naturalize this concept and unpack its relationship to agency!/1 #complexitycat 😼 www.complexitycat.org/posts/goal-d...

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Review The meaning and origin of goal-directedness: a dynamical systems perspective

Goal orientation is perhaps one of the most intriguing corollaries of living systems. Can we naturalize a concept that for centuries has been treated as something beyond reductionist explanations? Today I review an article that attempts to do so using the language of dynamical systems theory.

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