Tag: complexity
Intensive and Topological Thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wW2l-nBIDg http://www.egs.edu/ (2011) Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses Gilles Deleuze, bodies without organs, nature, intensive difference, physics, complexity, systems thinking, and the two remaining reasoning styles, intensive and topological thinking.
Emergence and Complexity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o_ZuWbX-CyE (May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist throughout nature.