In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

Articulating and Formalizing Theories of Biological Information” met as part of an ambitious project to develop an ...

The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit research and education center that leads global research in complexity science. SFI scientists seek the shared patterns and regularities across ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ...

We conjecture that adaptive systems are characterized by a self-referential loop in which combinatorial objects encode functions that act back on these objects. A model for this loop is presented. It ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

In the past, a person might be diagnosed with hysteria — a mental condition for which no useful treatment could be possible, ...

Recombination, including chromosomal segregation, shuffles together the genetic material carried by different members of a sexual species. This genetic mixing unties the evolutionary fate of alleles ...