The world headquarters for complexity science
As an independent, multidisciplinary research center, we are searching for order in the complexity of evolving worlds.
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Investing is an idea business...Our involvement [with SFI] gives us the opportunity to sit down with Nobel Prize winners in physics and economics, and with historians, biologists, and computer scientists, to get a broad look at the issues on which they are working.
Research Themes
Research Theme
Mental Models of Complexity
Can the ideas and mental models from complexity science be extended and applied beyond academia, to business, policy, and government?
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Invention & Innovation
How does novelty — both advantageous and unsuccessful — define evolutionary processes in technological, biological, and social systems?
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Complex Time
Can a theory of complex time explain aging across physical and biological systems?
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Complex Intelligence: Natural, Artificial, and Collective
We are measuring and comparing unique and species-spanning forms of intelligence.
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