Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity Book 14)

by John H. Miller

One view of modeling complex systems, which (at least implicitly) is held by many scientists, is the reductionist hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests that, if we can just get the right simplifications in the model, we will understand everything—if true, then the world around us, including the social world, is “just particle physics.”