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 ...

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 ...

SFI Professor Melanie Mitchell and SFI External Professor John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University) led a working group on ...

SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (CU Boulder) has been named a “Schmidt Science Polymath” by the philanthropic organization ...

In celebration of SFI’s 40th anniversary, the 29th Annual Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series will address this Complex World. We live in a complex world, meaning one that is increasingly connected ...

To SFI External Professor Han van der Maas, psychology is the most fascinating science of all. It’s also one he sees as facing multiple crises — crises of theory, replication, and measurement.