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John L. Casti
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Professor, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. Author of Complexification and others.

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A three-dimensional Lorenz attractor graph with swirling blue lines forming a butterfly-shaped pattern, representing chaotic motion in a mathematical weather model, with labeled x, y, and z axes.
Complexity, a scientific theory which asserts that some systems display behavioral phenomena that are completely inexplicable by any conventional analysis of the systems’ constituent parts. These phenomena, commonly referred to as emergent behavior, seem to occur in many complex systems involving…
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