AMA | September 2024

11636.977 - 11658.998 Sean Carroll

Jeremy Dittman says in Mitchell Waldrop's book on the Santa Fe Institute and the search for a theory of complexity, a section on Chris Langton describes his epiphany connecting complexity and dynamical systems as living in the transition between order and chaos, akin to the phase transition from a solid to a liquid as well as to computational classes moving from halting to undecidable to non-halting.