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In the issue #14 amazing new papers, from #NetworkScience foundations to #OriginOfLife #Neuroscience and #ComputationalSocialScience

Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time!
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If you are curious about the novel results published in Science and Nature by the collaboration btw Meta and US academics, you might want to read #ComplexityThoughts

I try to build some background for non-experts of #ComputationalSocialScience and summarize the main findings.

Finally, I dig into the ongoing debate, covering existing documents and my chats with Sandra González-Bailón, Sander van der Linden, Pierluigi Sacco and others

This debate might be of high interest for self-organized decentralized platforms, such as #Mastodon and the #Fediverse in general

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Following up a previous post about the topic, here there is the second (and maybe the last one) essay. What is the technological singularity and is this a real issue? Again, a perspective from #complexity #science, with a travel through #cybernetics, slime molds and black-hole computers.

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I have just posted my first short essay about a complexity science perspective on emergent abilities in AI, specifically current large language models.

There will be a follow up in the next days.
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The new issue (n° 12) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

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The new issue (n° 11) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

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The new issue (n° 11) of #ComplexityThoughts will be out on Monday @ 5pm

If you are curious: from #NetworkScience to #UrbanSystems, #NetworkNeuroscience & #OriginOfLife in this issue (see images!)

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A new issue (n° 10) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

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From #NetworkScience to #AI, #CollectiveBehavior & #OriginOfLife in this issue.

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Assume it'd possible to recreate the conditions of the Universe at a point t0 in time between 10 and 13 billion years ago. Then Apply a very small perturbation to some physical observable, in such a way that the new state of the Universe is quite similar, but not the exactly same, as our Universe at time t0.
Name U'(t) the evolution of the state of the perturbed universe, and U(t) the evolution of the unperturbed state of the current universe, until nowadays at time t.

Q:

What is the likelihood of this Mastodon post to appear in the universe U', after assuming to know that in the universe U the post appeared exactly at time t?
Assume to know that this happened with probability 1 in U at time t.

This is of course related to what emergence is and to its robustness to perturbations. If we are a the result of a frozen accident, as per Gell-Mann's arguments, how likely is that accident to happen again under some small changes?

Any thought, theoretical, philosophical, qualitative or quantitative is more than welcome.

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A new issue (n° 9) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

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Are you ready for the #ComplexityThoughts Issue #8?

From #NetworkScience to #DataScience, #NetworkNeuroscience & #NetworkMedicine in this issue.

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To stimulate more discussion about complexity around the materials I share, I am considering to open the comments to the subscribers of #ComplexityThoughts on substack. If you know any drawback please let me know.

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Are you ready for the #ComplexityThoughts Issue #6?

From network foundations to global systems, embodiment and network medicine.

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What's driving biodiversity loss? At variance w/ what one'd expect, land/sea use change has been the dominant direct driver worldwide.
Direct exploitation of natural resources, pollution, climate change and invasive alien species follow.

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