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    Part II: The glass isn’t half-empty or half-full. It's just complex or simple

    May 26, 2017

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    Adam Timlett

    In the previous article, I presented the problem of gut instincts and personal preferences in decision-making and argued that we need a more scientific model of the basis for risk-taking and risk-aversion in decision-making. In this final part of the article I will exp...

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    The glass isn’t half-empty or half-full. It's just complex or simple

    May 24, 2017

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    Adam Timlett

    Using gut instincts

    Are you a glass half-empty or half-full kind of person? The question paints optimism and pessimism as a personality trait. Whether, or not, we seem to be pessimists or optimists, risk takers, or risk-averse for that matter, the question reflects some...

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    Ways to be Rationally Complex

    May 22, 2017

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    Adam Timlett

    Predictability in nature allows complex solutions

    Surprisingly large parts of our world are simple in the sense that nature’s predictability allows us to design complex systems on top of this ‘simplicity’. As I’ve mentioned in another blog post, ‘Complexity 101’, which...

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    A digital 'New Wild'

    November 20, 2016

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    Adam Timlett

    The scientific imagination is now profoundly digital in a way that owes much to Turing, Von Nuemann and the first days of scientific computing. The growing science of complexity and 'emergence' in natural systems merely adds to this sense of a new lens through which to...

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    How 'complexity' impacts science and art, Science has no borders: Unwrapped! [Event]

    October 17, 2016

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    James White

    We were recently presenting at a Science Has no Borders: Unwrapped! (ShnB) interactive event at UCL that was really exciting to be a part of.  ShnB is about co-

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    Novelty all over again

    July 31, 2016

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    Adam Timlett

    What is novelty? Is there really such a thing as 'novelty' in reality, or does it all depend on your perspective and existing knowledge? Is novelty a problem now for modern philosophers as much as it was for the Ancients?

    The problem of novelty was a question that reall...

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    Complexity 101

    July 31, 2016

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    Adam Timlett

    By the end of this article, I promise you will understand what scientists usually mean when they talk about ‘complexity’ which is also what we mean by complexity when we talk about it on this website. By the way, as I will explain, it is not the same as 'chaos theory'...

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    The commonsense of the near future

    May 31, 2016

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    Adam Timlett

     

    It is a truism that most of us carry out our everyday commonsense tasks with very little conscious effort or analysis. Indeed to find everyday tasks formidably complex can often be a sign of mental illness or disability. The world of artificial intelligence, however,...

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    Two cultures and the consumers of complexity

    April 15, 2016

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    Adam Timlett

    Are we still two cultures?

    In 1959, the scientist and author CP Snow gave a lecture entitled ‘Two Cultures’. CP Snow’s speech was about the failure of the humanities to understand scientific culture. This argued failure of the humanities persisted despite the dramatic e...

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    Part II: The glass isn’t half-empty or half-full. It's just complex or simple

    May 26, 2017

    The glass isn’t half-empty or half-full. It's just complex or simple

    May 24, 2017

    Ways to be Rationally Complex

    May 22, 2017

    When Art Gets Hard

    January 31, 2017

    A digital 'New Wild'

    November 20, 2016

    Science and Art Twilight at The Royal Society of Chemistry [Event]

    November 11, 2016

    How 'complexity' impacts science and art, Science has no borders: Unwrapped! [Event]

    October 17, 2016

    Novelty all over again

    July 31, 2016

    Complexity 101

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    James: The artist's view

    July 10, 2016

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