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About Complex Systems
Concept Map
Description
System
Information
Observer
Patterns
Adaptive
Collective
Environment
Interdependent
Boundary
Indirect Effects
Network
Dynamic Response
Ecosystem
Feedback
Development
Linear & Nonlinear
Replication
Chaos & Fractals
Self-organization
Scale
Selection
Randomness
Evolution
Complexity
Emergence
Important related concepts:
- Power Law
- Particle
- Newton's Laws
- Control
- Distributed control
- Hierarchy
- Influence
- Thermodynamics
- Statistical mechanics
- Nonequilibrium dynamics
- Language / formal languages
- Separation of scales
- Reductionist
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