Originally published in Nautilus Magazine's "Reality" issue, September 2024. Republished with permission. What is reality?
"This past spring on my way to the Santa Fe Institute, home to polymath thinkers and thinking, tucked into the foothills of ...
In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and ...
The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. Our personal-level cognition and our relationships with others work in concert to shape our views of the world ...
Is there an ideal city form? As cities proliferate worldwide this has become a central question underpinning sustainable development and economic opportunity for billions of people. We provide ...
It’s become easier than ever before to engage with content online, particularly with features like infinite scrolling.
We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent group at a disadvantage in acquiring human capital. Extending Loury (1977), we ...
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, ...
Our campus is closed to the public for this event. The ‘Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference’ will be held at the Santa Fe Institute on Sep 23rd – 26th, 2024. It will bring together prestigious ...
Throughout scientific research, measured time series are the basis for characterizing an observed system and for predicting its future behavior. A number of new techniques (such as state-space ...
SFI Professor Melanie Mitchell and SFI External Professor John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University) led a working group on ...
The concept of a “fitness landscape,” a picturesque term for a mapping of the vertices of a finite graph to the real numbers, has arisen in several fields, including evolutionary theory. The ...