[HN Gopher] The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Compl...
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The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems
Author : achristmascarl
Score : 13 points
Date : 2024-07-22 16:47 UTC (2 days ago)
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| spacedcowboy wrote:
| If you want to read more about how this works, I'd recommend
| Stuart Kauffman's "The origins of order".
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| Be warned, it's not light reading, it's basically his PhD
| student's and his research, written up as a book, it is engaging
| though, and he leads you gently through the concepts - you do
| have to master one chapter before getting to the next though.
| Having said that, it does show how chaos and order interact with
| each other, and he then leads into the mechanism of evolution
| along the boundary of that interaction.
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| Spoiler: the boundary is where all the interesting stuff
| happens...
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