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C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
COMPLEXITY · Apr 8, 2022 · 1 h 14 min
Context is king: whether in language, ecology, culture, history, economics, or chemistry. One of the core teachings of complexity science is that nothing exists in isolation — especially when it comes to systems in which learning, memory, or emergent behaviors play a part. Even though this (paradoxically) limits the universality of scientific claims, it also lets us draw analogies between the…