Introduction to Complex Systems: Patterns in Nature

This video provides a basic introduction to the science of complex systems, focusing on patterns in nature.

[RagMama]

Love it! A nice, simple introduction to Complex Systems and Emergent Behavior.

[xbtzkxg]

this is a good introduction to complex system.

[theecoheroes]

The world really needs more Eco Heroes 🌍❤️

[tofolcano]

Good video, very well explained overall.

Although in 0:26 I disagree. The Systems of an environment don't just emerge as a result of many individual parts interacting with specific rules. I think that it's the other way around, the system emerges from the environment as a result of the environments effects on each individual.

It's the environment that causes the system to emerge, as a result of the clash of conflicts and all contradicting forces between the environment and each individual.

Example: Each fish wants less probabilities of getting eaten, and each of their predators (their environment as a whole) wants to eat as many of them as possible. So from those contradicting forces, or the interactions of each individual fish with the environment, emerges the system of the school of fish, which allows each one of them to have a lower chance of getting eaten.

So it's not the individuals that creates or causes the system to emerge, it's the environment that creates the system by influencing each individual.

That's why a school of fish and a flock of birds act in a similar fashion even though they're completely different species and they have nothing in common other than their environments being similar. (3D range of motion and many fast predators that can only eat one of them at a time)

And that's also why Carcinisation happens, because similar environments create similar systems.

[zaidsserubogo]

What do you try to mean by a "whole"?
Your lecture was quite so useful in multilevel self organisation of mass-matter-energy as a function of evolution of complex systems. Thanks for being specific.

[michaelhoward]

Has it been looked at how water currents or air currents effect the patterns formed?

[sergioereis]

great! I'll be back few more times

[nolanreach]

Did they add predators to their simulator yet?

[liaaamegannn]

Sources for this? Or links to anything else talking about complex systems?

[stephendouthart]

is it actually complex or are we just slow? would things we consider to be not complex, be complex to lesser species like apes etc? is it just relative to your own intelligence?