Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Societies today face daunting challenges: population growth, rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental disturbances, and an unpredictable global marketplace. To address these complex and ...

We present a technique for analyzing experimental time series that provides detection of nonlinearity in data dynamics and identification and quantification of underlying chaotic dynamics. It is based ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...

This paper assembles differing but related Native American views of Venus as seen from the perspectives of cultural contexts of varied complexity. Ascribed values and packets of symbolic meanings ...

Bak, P.,Chialvo, D. R. We describe a mechanism for biological learning and adaptation based on two simple principles: (i) Neuronal activity propagates only through the network's strongest synaptic ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

At the Santa Fe Institute, we're asking big questions.

We are building a theoretical framework that will guide the creation of artificial agents that adjust their neural networks (brains) to feedback from their bodies and surroundings -- in essence to ...