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Understanding Complexity
The Great Courses
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2022 · score 0.7
A Great Courses lecture series on complexity science, looking at how systems with many interacting parts produce emergent behavior. It is presented as a lecture course rather than a book.
One commenter says it changed how they view everyday life, from traffic to physiology, though they found it hard to name a specific change it caused.
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Understanding Complexity is not a book but a part of the Great Courses. It's hard to say what it directly changed but it did affect how I view everyday life, from traffic to physiology.
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