Module:Emergence

Complex Systems Summer School 2011 Modules Home Schedule Concepts: Nonlinearity Networks Computation Robustness Evolution Complexity Emergence Machine Learning

Organized by Simon DeDeo and James O'Dwyer

Readings

Simon DeDeo

Some influential views on emergence:

• "More is Different"
• The Calculi of Emergence & Computation at the Onset of Chaos

Background theories, tools and techniques:

• Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation (S. Hartmann)
• Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics (E.T. Jaynes)
• Scaling, Universality, and Renormalization: Three pillars of modern critical phenomena (E. Stanley)

Iain Couzin

(Content from the 2009/2010 Wikis)

• Complexity. An Informative Itinerary
• Collective Cognition in Animal Groups
• Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands
• Collective Minds
• Effective Leadership and Decision-Making in Animal Groups on the Move