
…roposed for the scientific community. One of the most important questions concerned a science-based “emergent” approach to solving societal problems. The grand challenge is to develop an emergence-based framework for approaching major societal issue…
distributed magnetically int…ovide a lucid introduction to an important gateway to emergent behavior in science and society, the spin glass: a system of randomly distributed magnetically interacting particles. As Stein’s PhD thesis advisor Phil Anderson noted in his talk introducing the topic at SFI’s 1984 …