In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

Articulating and Formalizing Theories of Biological Information” met as part of an ambitious project to develop an ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

In the past, a person might be diagnosed with hysteria — a mental condition for which no useful treatment could be possible, ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ideas. Several programs invite journalists for a weekend, a month, or even a ...

A historical archive of SFI's in-house preprint series, retired in 2017.

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the “swarm,” a collection of agents executing a schedule of ...

The framework of evolution organizes the observed diversity among living organisms and provides a glimpse at their common ancestors from billions of years ago. Within our own species, the diversity of ...

We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, when averaged over all possible cost functions. In particular, if algorithm A outperforms algorithm ...