Hispanic Heritage Month 2026
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Emergence


Emergence Books

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Emergence: From Chaos To Order
A New Kind of Science
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations (Ifsr International Series on Systems Science & Engineering, Vol 1)
System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts
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Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkLife Revisited by Laurent GrenierEvery Thing Must Go by James LadymanWhat Is Real? by Adam BeckerSomething Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll
Mindscape Podcast Books
104 books — 28 voters
The Origin of Wealth by Eric D. BeinhockerComplexity by Melanie MitchellComplex Adaptive Systems by John H. MillerThe Difference by Scott E. PageThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding Complexity
41 books — 29 voters

The Chaos Imperative by Ori BrafmanSex Trump and Gin by Steve MartinGreat by Choice by Jim CollinsEmergence by Steven Johnson
Best Books About Chaos
4 books — 2 voters
Mind in Life by Evan ThompsonDrop by Helen McKibbenThe Embodied Mind by Francisco J. VarelaEncounters with Living Language by Christina DonnellWhat Computers Still Can't Do by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Embodied Cognition
107 books — 48 voters

Quotes Tagged “Emergence”

Philip Ball
“ The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air. ”
― Philip Ball, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
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Stuart A. Kauffman
“ Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... Here, each term is the sum of the previous two terms. The phenomenon is well known and called phyllotaxis. Many are the efforts of biologists to understand why pine ...more ”
― Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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Books of interest to the meetup group of the same name. Currently reading Dennett 2017, Bacteria…more
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