Lecture Notes on Emergence and Complex Systems

As the name implies, lecture notes are supposed to be taken in the lectures. But to be honest, I have never had attended a course on the emergence and complex systems.

What I have done is limited to reading a couple of books and software implementation of a few low-order complex systems. However, I’ve always been interested in coaching an informal study group on complexity and emergence and as I’ve never done it and might never do it, decided to publish the supposed-to-be-written lecture notes in such sessions.

Here you can find the title of these topics, and I will provide further details about each of them in the future articles.

Lecture Notes on Complexity, Emergence, and Complex systems

• Why we need to study the complexity and the complex systems
• Complex systems approach to understanding the world: A Brief History
  • Thomas Hobbes and the emergence concept
• What is a complex system (When a system is not simple anymore)
• Definition of a complex system
  • Complexity as a predictive theory
• Behavioral Characteristics of the complex systems (features like emergence and policy resistance)
• Structural Properties of complex systems
• Examples of complex systems
• Financial market as a complex system
• Human body as a complex system
• Brain as a complex system
• Different levels of complexity
• Complex systems in organizations
• Books about complex systems and complexity theory
• Modeling complex systems
  • John Conway and Game of Life
• Complex systems engineering & Complex systems architecture
• Complex systems design
• Data scientists and complex systems management
• Job opportunities and career path for a complex systems analyst
• Complex systems ecology
• Complex adaptive systems (Definition + Characteristics)
• Examples of complex adaptive systems
• Human behavior as manifestations of a complex adaptive system
• Human society as a complex adaptive system
• Complex systems in nature
  • Termite community as a robust complex system
• The whole world as a complex adaptive system: being vs. becoming
• Future of complexity theory