Largely A Mystery

Riding reductionism, we run into the hard wall of complexity.  We have learned that nature is not a well designed puzzle with only one way to put it back together.  In complex systems the components can fit in so many different ways that it would take billions of years for us to try them all.  Yet nature assembles the pieces with a grace and precision honed over the millions of years.  It does so by exploiting the all-encompassing laws of self-organization, whose roots are still largely a mystery to us.
—    Albert-László Barabási
From his book: “Linked: The New Science of Networks“
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2014	Likes And Dislikes
2013	Pillars Of Learning
2012	Another JCoM Review
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2011	Expected Value

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