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With Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?

MAR 31, 2025
A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.
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