Murray Gell-Mann | A Pardee Distinguished Lecture

Murray Gell-Mann on Regularities and Randomness in the Past and the Future (Part Two).

Picking up on the ideas presented in the first part of the lecture, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences, because cities, nation-states, etc., are complex adaptive systems. He points out that social complexity can be modeled to a certain degree of probability. He also discusses how language can be studied as a complex system, by understanding the role of regularities.

Dr. Gell-Mann notes the importance of treating complex social systems as nonlinear systems, and suggests methods for studying and predicting their long-range behavior.

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