Similar here. Reading the title, thinking “explaining how exponential complexity is worse than linear will be a piece of cake”. Reading the text, thinking “okay, how is this different from cybernetics?”
Even Wikipedia just says “study of complexity and complex systems”, and then points towards computational complexity and systems theory. Wikipedia has its flaws, but...
Even among the resources linked as “some courses/primers/introductions”, half of them do not contain words “complexity theory” or “complexity science”. Which makes me doubt:
It is at least not 100% crackpottery, since some books are published by Princeton university press and Oxford university press.
Just because those books contain the word “complex” or “complexity”, doesn’t mean they support the idea of “complexity science”.
Complexity theory seems to be a rarely used synonym for complexity science. Although, it’s used in the title of one of the books. I’ve mistakenly used “complexity theory” too many times in my question. I’ve just fixed that.
Regarding some courses/primers/introductions, I found them by following links and citations from other complexity science related things and by using connectedpapers.com to find similar books/articles, not just by googling complexity science. (Except for the classcentral courses, but those talk about dynamic systems, chaos, and fractals, so they are probably also on-topic) So they most probably support the idea of complexity science. You can also Ctrl+F “emerg” to find the use of the word emergence in them and see that they talk about complexity science.
To be clear, I’ve checked Understanding complexity by Scott E. Page—the book contains lectures and is published by Princeton university press and Complexity: a guided tour—Mitchell 2011 published by Oxford university press and they definitely talk about emergence, self-organization and contain other vocab associated with complexity science.
Similar here. Reading the title, thinking “explaining how exponential complexity is worse than linear will be a piece of cake”. Reading the text, thinking “okay, how is this different from cybernetics?”
Even Wikipedia just says “study of complexity and complex systems”, and then points towards computational complexity and systems theory. Wikipedia has its flaws, but...
Even among the resources linked as “some courses/primers/introductions”, half of them do not contain words “complexity theory” or “complexity science”. Which makes me doubt:
Just because those books contain the word “complex” or “complexity”, doesn’t mean they support the idea of “complexity science”.
Complexity theory seems to be a rarely used synonym for complexity science. Although, it’s used in the title of one of the books. I’ve mistakenly used “complexity theory” too many times in my question. I’ve just fixed that.
Regarding some courses/primers/introductions, I found them by following links and citations from other complexity science related things and by using connectedpapers.com to find similar books/articles, not just by googling complexity science. (Except for the classcentral courses, but those talk about dynamic systems, chaos, and fractals, so they are probably also on-topic) So they most probably support the idea of complexity science. You can also Ctrl+F “emerg” to find the use of the word emergence in them and see that they talk about complexity science.
To be clear, I’ve checked Understanding complexity by Scott E. Page—the book contains lectures and is published by Princeton university press and Complexity: a guided tour—Mitchell 2011 published by Oxford university press and they definitely talk about emergence, self-organization and contain other vocab associated with complexity science.