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▶ Towards a Self-Regulating Society
Towards a Self-Regulating Society. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich. 2014/05/20See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing complexity
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The direction of evolution: The rise of cooperative organization
Two great trends are evident in the evolution of life on Earth: towards increasing diversification and towards increasing integration. Diversification has spread living processes across the planet,...
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The Science of Storytelling
Many studies show us that our brains prefer storytelling to facts.When we read facts, only the language parts of our brains work to understand the meaning. When we read a story, the language parts of...
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Network visualization game to understand how a disease spreads
Vax, a game by Ellsworth Campbell and Isaac Bromley, explores how a disease spreads through a network, starting with just one infected person. It's a simple concept that works well.When you start the...
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The World after Big Data: Building the Self-Regulating Society
The World after Big Data: Building the Self-Regulating Society. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich.See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing complexity
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Mass Extinction of Languages: The Roughly 7,000 Human Languages are...
Himalayas and tropical regions likely next hotspots for language extinction. The world's roughly 7000 known languages are disappearing faster than species, with a different tongue dying approximately...
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Nicholas Christakis: The #Sociological Science Behind Social #Networks and...
If You're So Free, Why Do You Follow Others? The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical ...Bill Aukett's insight:Human networks as...
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Who Needs a Driver? These Navy Boats Are Programmed to Swarm Like Bees
Using algorithms based on the swarming behavior of ants and bees, the U.S. Navy is turning to driverless boats to protect its ships. This August, on the James River in Virginia, the U.S. Navy staged...
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From decisions to disorders: how neuroscience is changing what we know about...
People have wanted to understand our motivations, thoughts and behaviors since the ancient Greeks inscribed “know thyself” on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. And understanding the brain’s place in...
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▶ Responsible Innovation - The Role of Ethics in an Increasingly Complex World
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▶ Dirk Helbing: Bye bye Homo Economicus
Presented at the "Controversies in Game Theory: Homo Oeconomicus vs. Homo Socialis" Workshop @ ETH Zürich, September 2014 http://www.soms.ethz.ch/Workshop2014You can find the Q&A here...
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Timeline of the far future - Infographic
What do we expect will happen in one thousand years time? Or one million years? Or even one billion? As our amazing timeline shows, there may be trouble ahead.See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing...
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The post-antibiotic future is here: Chilling report highlights the reality of...
Superbugs are killing India's newborns, the New York Times reports -- and the entire world's at riskBill Aukett's insight:unknowable and unintended consequences of actions in complex global systemsSee...
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Computer-based "deep neural network" as good as primates at visual object...
Computers aren't best suited to visual object recognition. Our brains are hardwired to quickly see and match patterns in everything, with great leaps of intuition, while the processing center of a...
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Why and How to Create a Planetary Nervous System for Everyone as a...
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Complexity Theory: A short film (5')
A short film about complexity theory and the shift in paradigm from the Newtonian clockwork universe to complex systems. Enjoy : ) From http://www.fotonlabs.comSee it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing...
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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Though they started at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum, McCulloch and Pitts were destined to live, work, and die together. Along the way, they would create the first mechanistic theory of...
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The Critical Few
To maintain stability yet retain the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances, social systems must strike a balance between the maintenance of a shared reality and the survival of minority...
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How Network Science Is Changing Our Understanding of Law
The first network analysis of the entire body of European Community legislation reveals the pattern of links between laws and their resilience to change.See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing...
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Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated -- until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals...
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What Isn't Complexity?
The question What is Complexity? has occupied a great deal of time and paper over the last 20 or so years. There are a myriad different perspectives and definitions but still no consensus. In this...
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Self-Organization, Emergence, and Constraint in Complex Natural Systems
Contemporary complexity theory has been instrumental in providing novel rigorous definitions for some classic philosophical concepts, including emergence. In an attempt to provide an account of...
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The Heterogeneous Dynamics of Economic Complexity
What will be the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or the competitiveness of China, United States, and Vietnam in the next 3, 5 or 10 years? Despite this kind of questions has a large...
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Physicists make 'weather forecasts' for economies
The development of some countries is as predictable as steady winds, but for others it is more chaotic, physicists find.See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing complexity
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Self-Policing Through Norm Internalization
In the seminal work 'An Evolutionary Approach to Norms', Axelrod identified internalization as one of the key mechanisms that supports the spreading and stabilization of norms. But how does this...
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Climate change: Embed the social sciences in climate policy
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is becoming irrelevant to climate policy. By seeking consensus and avoiding controversy, the organization is suffering from the streetlight effect —...
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The Meme as Meme
Memes were originally framed in relationship to genes. In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins claimed that humans are “survival machines” for our genes, the replicating molecules that emerged from the primordial...
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The Amazing, Autotuning Sandpile
Remember domino theory? One country going Communist was supposed to topple the next, and then the next, and the next. The metaphor drove much of United States foreign policy in the middle of the 20th...
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The New Laws of Explosive Networks
Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst....
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Cognitive Biases in the Assimilation of Scientific Information on Global...
Abstract: The ability of scientific knowledge to contribute to public debate about societal risks depends on how the public assimilates information resulting from the scientific community. Bayesian...
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