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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them.
Skillfully narrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour - winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science - offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.
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What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them.
Skillfully narrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour - winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science - offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.
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- Michael Falk
- 12-04-24
Great book! But some parts aren’t ideal for audio
This is a brilliant introduction to Complexity, written with Melanie Mitchell’s usual clarity and thoughtfulness. It covers a wide range of topics and a fascinating way. The performance is also excellent – I give it 4/5 not because of any issue with the performance itself, but because some of the book doesn’t really lend itself to performance. If you really want to follow along with the equations and models in some chapters, you might be better off getting this in print.
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- Steen
- 04-07-22
Complexity made simple
Having read (listened) Melanie Mitchel’s book about AI I had to read Complexity as well. Her ability to make, for laymen, complex topics simple and explain eloquently the topics is what this book well worth a read.
One thing missing are the references to the figures in the PDF file. Next to impossible to find these.
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- jcloth83
- 04-02-24
A fantastic overview of a range of topics related to the science of complexity.
Excellent narration, clear and logical structure with the right amount of detail and practical examples.
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