Selected reading: Examples of collective behaviour and complexity questions.
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How does order emerge from interaction?
Choose one collective pattern and distinguish the local rule from the system-level observation.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
Read alongside, read against
Hidden Order
John Holland. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
Hiroki Sayama. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Networks
Mark Newman. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Per Bak. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Sync
Steven Strogatz. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.