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Study feedback, networks, nonlinear dynamics and emergence through models you can inspect.
Algebra and a spreadsheet are enough to start. Optional simulations use simple programming; advanced nonlinear dynamics later benefits from calculus.
A reproducible simulation with a sensitivity analysis and a critique of its scope.
Start here if the background is new. Equivalent experience is enough.
Use continuous-change models for the optional advanced dynamics readings; algebra is enough to begin.
Use a small program for the optional simulations; a spreadsheet also supports the opening work.
Melanie Mitchell · book · 2009
Examples of collective behaviour and complexity questions
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Open the readingComplexity: A Guided Tour. Choose one collective pattern and distinguish the local rule from the system-level observation.
John Holland · book · 1995
Adaptive agents and model construction
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Open the readingHiroki Sayama · book · 2015
Adaptive agents and model construction
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Open the readingHidden Order. Trace agents, adaptation and interactions in one complex adaptive system.
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems. Choose a small model, list its variables and keep its simplifications explicit.
Hiroki Sayama · book · 2015
Adaptive agents and model construction
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Open the readingStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors · reference
A small cellular automaton or dynamical model
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Open the readingIntroduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems. Choose a small model, list its variables and keep its simplifications explicit.
Cellular Automata. Define the update rule and compare outputs from controlled starting conditions.
Per Bak · book · 1996
Criticality claims and meanings of emergence
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Open the readingStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors · reference
Criticality claims and meanings of emergence
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Open the readingHow Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. Identify the criticality claim and the evidence needed beyond a similar-looking pattern.
Emergent Properties. Distinguish a system-level description from a stronger claim about explanatory independence.
Editorial perspectives based on selected works, rather than author-endorsed reading lists.
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Stuart Kauffman.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of John Holland.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Melanie Mitchell.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.
Selected chapters and argument
Choose one collective pattern and distinguish the local rule from the system-level observation.
Examples of collective behaviour and complexity questions
Extract one claim and distinguish the evidence supporting it from the author’s interpretation.
Selected chapters and argument
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Trace agents, adaptation and interactions in one complex adaptive system.
Adaptive agents and model construction
Choose a small model, list its variables and keep its simplifications explicit.
Adaptive agents and model construction
Choose one network model and explain how the interaction structure affects its outcome.
One network model or nonlinear dynamical example
Identify the criticality claim and the evidence needed beyond a similar-looking pattern.
Criticality claims and meanings of emergence
Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.
Selected chapters and argument
Study one dynamical example and separate sensitivity to initial conditions from randomness.
One network model or nonlinear dynamical example
Extract one claim and distinguish the evidence supporting it from the author’s interpretation.
Selected chapters and argument
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Distinguish a system-level description from a stronger claim about explanatory independence.
Criticality claims and meanings of emergence
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Define the update rule and compare outputs from controlled starting conditions.
A small cellular automaton or dynamical model
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Compare emergent patterns and developmental models at different levels of explanation.