Organisms that respond quickly to changing environments have an advantage over those that don’t. However, reacting too ...

A recent study by SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Katrin Schmelz and coauthors explores various scenarios when it may be ...

Stephan Mertens passed away on October 9, 2024, at the age of 62 after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma. At the time ...

Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII’s distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abstract: In brains, symmetry, asymmetry, and complexity are brought together; and affect both structure and function. Symmetric structures, thanks ...

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Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII’s distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their ...

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast at SFI 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Introduction by David Krakauer, “Emergently Engineered Timescales” 10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. James Holehouse, "Unnecessary Bureaucracy?

The aim of this comment is to highlight the clear correspondence between some existing experimental data on cooperative foraging in ants, where it is known that mass recruitment is less flexible than ...

When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ...