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What are some informative books about complex systems?

>> No.18001112

>>18000962
there you go.
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=26AB06BDFD3CE0CE1456BE7A916DA6B0

>> No.18001192

>>18000962
Mind and Nature by Bateson
He had another book called steps to an ecology of mind that’s good as well

>> No.18001216

>>18000962
What in particular are you interested in? The quick answer would be just to look into Cybernetics. (http://www.cybsoc.org/books.htm))
This field has many branches depending on if you're interested in social, physical, or cognitive systems.

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>>18000962

>> No.18001632

>>18001220
I can't trust this cover.

>> No.18001689

>>18001632
What do you mean? Because it's the aesthetics of the American guilded age in the 21st century? Because it mixes old styles with contemporary riots?

>> No.18001742

>>18000962
Recursivity & Contingency by Yuk Hui

>> No.18001748

>>18001689
No. That's because there's too much work on it. It tries too hard and I'm not falling for it.

>> No.18001781

>>18001748
Fair

>> No.18001793

>>18000962
My diary desu

>> No.18002774

>>18001220
I wish your thumb was up my ass while you're blowing me, butters.

It says the book is about "global justice movement" though I don't know what it means. help me out on this?

Also, butters, what do you think of DiEM25?

>> No.18002813

>>18001216
not OP, but thanks, my fellow negro.
This seems interesting.

>> No.18003003

>>18002813
It's fun stuff. Some of it may be too technical if you're not mathematically oriented, but there's enough interdisciplinarity that you can find a vein of approach. Feel free to start a new thread if interested in specific topics. I usually lurk on this board and this is my general field of research so I'm available for further info.

>> No.18003031

>>18000962
i am studying control and systems engi and i will answer your question definitively:
>Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering

>> No.18003048

>>18003031
Based, I have a PhD in theoretical physics and minor in complex systems and this book started it all. Not memeing. If you read it cover to cover you can almost immediately progress to Review of Modern Physics papers on complexity theory.

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>>18001748
Anarchists are very creative people. It’s a fun cover and captures the slight humor of the author quite nicely. It’s a great read if the topic interests at all.

> DiEM25
Oh yeah. Chomsky said something about that. Looks very interesting

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>>18000962
Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems

Very easy to read, not overly technical, not too long, plenty of real world examples. Good introduction to systems thinking.

Now with regards to the success of people trying to implement these concepts in real life, you can look at the many complex models used to make projects about coronavirus spread, and just how accurate those predictions were.