Describes the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a non-traditional group interested in areas between established academic research fields. 'Emerging synthesis' and 'complex adaptive systems'; Founding workshops in 1984 at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Workshops, summer schools ...
Suddenly the city that all day had lain quietly distant came to life in all its shimmering complexity. As angles shifted and turned in the pink evening light it dawned on me with surprising clarity how movement begets perspective. Through movement we discern the true shape of a thing. As we...
(Complexity Explorer | Santa Fe Institute) About the Course: Probability and statistics have long helped scientists make sense of data about the natural world — to find meaningful signals in the noise. But classical statistics prove a little threadbare intoday’s landscape of large datasets,which...
It would make sense because of the many seabirds, and the many sea lions, and the small harbor seals, that take turn defecating right in there, even with a modest contribution from the occasional sea otter. Nobody cares about that either. In the summer and much of the year, that beach...
the dynamic complexity of japan’s multicultural religions traditions and to serve as a “jump-start” classroom aid for teachers and students of japan’s religious artwork. slide 4. daikokuten in a nutshell. many of the gods of buddhism were originally demonic, multi-armed, multi-headed hindu...