A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

The philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn distinguished between periods of “normal science” and periods of “revolution.” As he explains in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), ...

This event is closed to the public. The brain’s fundamental challenge is the equivalent of competing in a game show without knowing the topic, the format, the level of complexity, the strength of the ...

Eric BeinhockerProfessor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; External Professor and Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute Andrea LiuProfessor of Physics, University of ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind, died peacefully May 24, 2019. He ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected President of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an ...