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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...