Spontaneous Order

[magus341]

Spontaneous order is the phenomenon whereby complex social phenomena emerge from the independent actions of a group of people, without the direction of a central planner or grand design guiding them. It is the social science version of complexity theory, which explains how complex results can emerge from simple rules. Spontaneous order is an

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[psyllogism]

I love some of your hyperlinks! Good use of the medium.

I was probably going to get to complex systems/emergence sometime this year. Maybe I'll just link back to you instead :-)

[magus341]

Thanks. My favorites are rule 34 (as a joke) and pirate law. Wikipedia has some good articles on several of these topics. I've decided not to link to bad wikipedia articles, even though they may get better eventually. Are you studying complexity theory? Are you going to do a post about it?