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In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch
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我相信即便没有什么理科背景的读者也会被此书吸引，作者诙谐幽默的语言跟老道的叙事手法让此书堪比一流的小说。 里面的人物都被刻画得栩栩如生，他们性格各异，或张扬或沉稳，但是都有一个共同点，那便是对世界的探索欲，对未知规律永恒的好奇心。 当然，最激动人心的还是能...
评分如果说作家是人类的良心，那么科学家毫无疑义的担当起了人类的智力。他们用他们非凡美妙的想象力和无比坚韧的毅力带领着我们，领略世界，了解自己。 首先，我相信这本书对大多数人来说会是一个很丰富的阅读过程，其间涉及的从生物化学宇宙起源的物理探索到电子人工智能跨领域...
评分好书，好书，拿起他就再也难以放下。真实的生命原来是这样的。说出了我想说却无法说出的话，我更加清楚自己未来的生活应该如何。
评分第一次看这本书是在大学图书馆阅览室,当时偶然看到这本书便撒不了手,差点让我挂了一门专业课. 这本书不是讲具体的哪门科学或者技术,而是讲的一种考虑问题的方式,也就是马哲里边说的方法论吧. 全书以小说的形式展开去,将要阐述的观点散布在故事情节中,避免了令人望而却步的生硬...
评分好书，好书，拿起他就再也难以放下。真实的生命原来是这样的。说出了我想说却无法说出的话，我更加清楚自己未来的生活应该如何。
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《复杂》导读 http://www.swarmagents.com/complex/intro/books.htm作者：张江（英文版封面，中文版现在不好找）作者：米歇尔.沃尔德洛普 翻译：陈玲出版：三联书店 《复杂》这本书的出版可以说给中国的学术界打开了一扇窗子，让我们真正的了解了国外的复杂性科学。有人称《复杂》这本书是复杂性科学的“圣经”我看也一点不为过。《复杂》类似于纪实小说，读起来轻松愉快，然而这也许会让不熟悉的人摸不到头脑，因为单单从每一章的标题根本读不出来这
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评分《复杂》导读 http://www.swarmagents.com/complex/intro/books.htm作者：张江（英文版封面，中文版现在不好找）作者：米歇尔.沃尔德洛普 翻译：陈玲出版：三联书店 《复杂》这本书的出版可以说给中国的学术界打开了一扇窗子，让我们真正的了解了国外的复杂性科学。有人称《复杂》这本书是复杂性科学的“圣经”我看也一点不为过。《复杂》类似于纪实小说，读起来轻松愉快，然而这也许会让不熟悉的人摸不到头脑，因为单单从每一章的标题根本读不出来这
评分相遇总比相守来的奇幻，恋爱总比婚姻来的耐看。本书如果只停留在artificial life的struggling之前，即santa fe形成之时，会更加多彩。后面对Langton经历的细致描画，虽然是励志是奇迹，却开始偏离主线。接下来对institute经费紧张等行政状况记录，更加是柴米油盐酱醋茶。不能说不好，只是有些添足。 好吧，作为混沌与秩序之间，这样的复杂可能就是作者想达成的效果吧。
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