Category: Talks

New Perspectives on Complexity

Stephen Wolfram leads an interactive discussion about his recent writing on complexity, and on biological evolution.
Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research; Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha & Wolfram Language; Author of A New Kind of Science and other books; and the Originator of Wolfram Physics Project.

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Complexity Science and the Economy

Rising costs of living and growing debt are leaving individuals and the economy under immense strain. Complexity science reveals how structural shifts in the 1980s created a regime where ideas like trickle-down economics no longer work—but were helpful in addressing the challenges of that time. These policies now drive rising consumer debt, inequality, and economic instability.

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Cross Roads #50: “The Many Faces of Emergence” Dr Fernando Rosas

https://www.youtube.com/live/bgB8e3Goa2o

Emergence is one of the most fascinating and challenging aspects of complex systems, being also a controversial topic featuring long-standing debates and disagreements. In this talk I’ll introduce a pragmatic and pluralistic stance towards emergence that focusing on facilitating practical methods to establish falsifiable hypotheses and procedures to verify them. This approach will be illustrated by exploring two distinct but complementary operationalisations of emergence: (i) self-contained levels of description and (ii) synergistic interactions between constituents. The talk will review some particle examples, and highlight open questions and directions of future work.

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