NU Splash Biography

The economist Jeffery Goldstein defined emergence as "the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems". In this class, we shall look at examples of complex behavior arising from a collection of simple entities, and a glance at the tools we can use to study this behavior. Some particular examples of interest will be: - collections of atoms at extremely low temperatures. - colonies of plants and animals. - crowds of people. - consciousness?