Complexity: a guided tour

By:

Mitchell, Melanie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2009 Oxford University Press New YorkDescription: xvi, 349 pISBN:

9780199798100

Subject(s):

Complexity (Philosophy)

DDC classification:

501 M4C6

Summary: What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199798100.do?keyword=9780199798100&sortby=bestMatches)

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What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199798100.do?keyword=9780199798100&sortby=bestMatches)

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