What complexity science is, and why
Abstract
This is an essay about understanding complexity science, via some peculiarities of the field, as a meeting place for a special kind of scientist. It comes out of my hobby of reading popular-science complex systems books, and builds on notes that have been collecting dust for almost a decade.
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