Complexity Thoughts: Issue #1
Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time
Network Foundations
Predicting network dynamics without requiring the knowledge of the interaction graph | PNAS
The true topology of an unknown network is not needed for predicting dynamics, since they evolve in a subspace of astonishingly low dimension compared to the size and heterogeneity of the graph.
Statistical inference links data and theory in network science | Nature Communications
This is one study I have done in collaboration with Leto Peel and Tiago Peixoto. It’s a perspective on how to reconcile network modeling and data by means of Bayesian statistical inference. It’s just been published and it is related to the above study, so I think it’s good for giving more context about this relevant subject in Network Science.
Network Epidemiology
Coupling epidemic spreading and pathogen evolution leads to more complex dynamics and behavior with pandemic potential.
Network Medicine
Using network science to map the virus-host interactome to gain insights about infectious mechanisms and potentially discovery new targeted terapies.
Origin of Life
A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging | Quanta Magazine
The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging and cancer.
Conceiving a living system as a self-maintaining, resilient network of processes or reactions, generalizing the notion of autopoiesis that has been proposed as a definition of life by Maturana and Varela in the '70s.
Special on Emergence
Fifty years of ‘More is different’ | Nature Reviews Physics
Fifty years after the publication of Philip Anderson’s landmark essay ‘More is different’ that crystallized the idea of emergence, eight scientists describe the most interesting phenomena that emerge in their fields.
More is different with a vengeance | Cell Systems
The impact of Phil Anderson's work on systems biology.
The introductory article to a whole special issue devoted to “Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies“. Trying to classify emergent systems and their features.
Oldies but goldies…
An information-theoretic primer on complexity, self-organization, and emergence | Complexity
Can we make more sense of complexity by using information theory?
Book of the week
The Entangled Brain
How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
By Luiz Pessoa
