Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: Thirty Years of Complexity Thinking at the Santa Fe Institute

Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume collects essays from the past thirty years of research, in which contributors explain in clear and accessible language many of the deepest challenges and insights of complexity science.Explore the evolution of complex systems science with chapters from Nobel Laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, aswell as numerous pioneering complexity researchers, including John Holland, Brian Arthur, Robert May, Richard Lewontin, Jennifer Dunne, and Geoffrey West.

• History, Big History, & Metahistory
• The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
• A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
• Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis
• The Energetics of Computing in Life and Machines
• Complexity: A Guided Tour
• Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems
• Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans