Flashcards
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Cards in this deck (6)
- 1—Collective:
A cooperative group of agents, such as ants or bees, that share at least one common interest. A group motivated by a common objective, such as the eradication of COVID19.
- 2Complex CausalityComplex Causality:
When the underlying causes for something's emergence are multiple, various, and/or heterogeneous, making causal inference quite difficult. - 3—Trade-off:
When the characteristics that enhance one aspect of performance necessarily decrease another type of performance. A compromise. - 4—Coarse Graining:
Imagine looking at a painting, and then letting your eyes go all blurry. What happens? The details disappear and you see only colors and shapes. Scientists do this with complex systems, in order to gain a general understanding of a noisy, complicated system made up of many smaller things. Finding the right level of detail with which to look at a system to get a rough impression, without being overwhelmed by information
- 5EmergenceEmergence:
A process by which a system of interacting sub-units acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be understood as the simple addition of their individual contributions. More is different. - 6—Complex System:
A system composed of a large number of interacting components, without central control, whose emergent behavior is more complex than can be explained or predicted from understanding the sum of the behavior of the individual components.