Is “complexity” always in the eye of the beholder?
Is complexity in the system, or in the fit between the system and our description of it?
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I have also written for you a short semi-technical piece on #ComplexityThoughts about this:
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Yesterday, 3,200+ people got #ComplexityThoughts Issue 76 in their inbox.
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Yesterday, 3,000+ people got #ComplexityThoughts Issue 75 in their inbox.
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#ComplexSystems 🧪🧬🦠🌐
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
I'll be sharing one per day through the end of this year. Today: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
I'll be sharing one per day through the end of this year. Today: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
I'll be sharing one per day through the end of this year. Today: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
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Three years of #ComplexityThoughts!
What surprised me most this year? Growth, the podcast and what changed after going hybrid.
Recap + top 10 Thoughts: manlius.substack.com/p/three-year...
Thank you 🙏
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
I'll be sharing one per day through the end of this year. Today: manlius.substack.com/p/the-far-re...
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
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Missed the best #ComplexityThoughts in 2025?
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I collected 10 short essays shared this year in #ComplexityThoughts and I will be sharing every day one with a direct link and create a chain of quoted posts, to keep track.
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How many “worlds” there are in the universe?
In the latest essay on #ComplexityThoughts I develop an estimate: manlius.substack.com/p/a-whole-lo...
Click below to watch a visual overview of the post 👇
youtu.be/bmP7ISg3SDQ
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This can have incredible consequences when coupled with models for the origin of life:
📄 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
👉 manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
It seems I have to write a new post for #ComplexityThoughts soon.
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🚨 In 2026, I’ll dedicate a whole #ComplexityThoughts series to further discussions: making a concrete effort to translate the paper’s key ideas into hands-on, biologist-friendly intuition, while also keeping the physics constraints explicit, honest and falsifiable
Check it! manlius.substack.com
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What's better than starting the week amazing papers from the 73th Issue of #ComplexityThoughts?
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PS 🎁 (end-of-year 🙏): gifting ten 1y subscriptions to #ComplexityThoughts via a random draw among everyone who subscribes by Dec 31 (no purchase necessary).
Winners announced in the first week of January, so we can start 2026 with more stuff to read 📚 and more complexity science to unpack 🔍
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Through recursive feedback, where humans shape AI, and AI increasingly shapes human thought and action, AI may acquire a role not as a separate agent, but as a core architectural element of an emerging collective individual
#ComplexityThoughts
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Excess mortality is *not* a simple count. It's a deviation capturing direct deaths, indirect effects, misclassification, delayed care: all shocks moving through a connected system. One number, many mechanisms.
w/ @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
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Looking at the current homepage of #ComplexityThoughts it is clear that I don't like #ComplexSystems at all.
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Understanding the process that favored the emergence of life is not just about looking backward to 🌎’s first dawn: it’s about learning how complexity itself begins and how it might arise again, elsewhere.
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
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According to decades of behavioral experiments, humans defy logic.
Maybe that's not irrationality; maybe it's better math waiting to be found. Or just to be used to describe non-classical decisions, w/o need for quantum brains.
#ComplexityThoughts
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What connects molecules, ecosystems, brains and societies?
Exactly 1y ago, I captured that question in this video, showing how simple mechanisms generate the complexity of life and behavior.
Now heading towards the 3rd birthday of #ComplexityThoughts: unbelievable.
#Complexity #NetworkScience
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Enjoy exploring how complexity shapes our world?
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A microscopic organism can survive the vacuum of space: yet our infrastructures collapse under a summer storm.
Why? 👉 Because structure isn’t enough.
Resilience depends on functionality.
And we need a lot of network science to grasp it.
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