Sync

Selected reading: Selected chapters and argument.

How to study this source

• How does order emerge from interaction?

  criticismSelected chapters and argument

  Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.

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.

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

  Steven Strogatz. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.