Emergence


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
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
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
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

Roger Spitz
In an era of predictable unpredictability, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, while at the same time bridging our longer-term strategy with the present.
Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

John H. Holland
With these points in mind, it’s helpful to more closely examine the relations between grammars, theories of physical systems, and generated systems. Grammatical rules determine the meaningful orderings of words within a language, thereby defining the corpus for the language. Similarly, the mechanisms of a physical model (anything from levers to electron spin) determine possible trajectories through physical-state space (such as the trajectory of a probe through the solar system). It is possible ...more
John H. Holland, Complexity: A Very Short Introduction

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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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