2020/05/04
Multilevel complexity Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different”
How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic. "Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs". Together with Simon's paper on Hierarchies, and the more complex version of hierarchical (control) complexity by Howard Pattee, these three papers form a essential set in understanding multilevel complexity. Full blog post by Clifford Brangwynne at Scientific American.
Labels: #ComplexSystems, #Hierarchy, #Multilevel
