Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Panel Questions

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Please post questions you might have for our panel on June 19th. Panel includes Simon DeDeo, Mirta Galesic, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and others to be announced shortly.

1. Are there any universal principles that govern the generation of power-law distributions?
2. Is complex systems science a discipline, toolset, mindset, or something else? How do you define complex systems science?
3. What evidence do we have that understanding complex systems is a task the human mind is capable of? What if we reached the point where it's fundamentally beyond our comprehension?
4.Can you briefly use complex system science to explain any socio-economic phenomenon, say migration. Am interested in analysing why people migrate; how can complex system science help me do this?
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