1972 [More is different](http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72more_is_different.pdf) by PW Anderson

1995 [What is Complexity?](https://www.cs.unm.edu/~wjust/CS523/Readings/Gell-Mann.pdf) by Gell-Mann
 
1997 [COMPLEXITY AND CATASTROPHE - A Conversation with Sir John Maddox](https://www.edge.org/documents/Maddox-1997.pdf)

## Hierarchical structure of science, nature and everything


**Herbert Simon**

- 1962  http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ArchitectureOfComplexity.HSimon1962.pdf

- [The sciences of the Artificial](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2004/Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed.pdf) including

Alternative Views of Complexity
The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems

## Connections

- https://johnmarkmorris.com/2022/03/13/lee-cronin-assembly-theory/

- [Systems theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory)
[How To Be a Systems Thinker A Conversation With Mary Catherine Bateson [4.17.18] ](https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker)

- Wikipedia

- [GEEKIPEDIA](https://www.wired.com/story/geekipedia/)

## Research on complexity

[Why Complexity is Different](https://mystudentvoices.com/why-complexity-is-different-ecd498e0eccb) by Yaneer Bar-Yam Complex systems scientist studying social and economic systems. From physicist's point of view and the perspective of renormalization group

[How Complex Systems Fail](https://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf) Richard I. Cook
> (Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is
> Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety)


[D. Helbing: Next civilization](http://rf.mokslasplius.lt/d-helbing-next-civilization/)

[Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/)

- [overview of Computational Complexity Theory](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/1862/a%2Bbrief%2Boverview%2Bof%2Bcomplexity%2Btheory-%2BOded%2BGoldrecih.pdf)