"This past spring on my way to the Santa Fe Institute, home to polymath thinkers and thinking, tucked into the foothills of ...

In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and ...

Originally published in Nautilus Magazine's "Reality" issue, September 2024. Republished with permission. What is reality?

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. Our personal-level cognition and our relationships with others work in concert to shape our views of the world ...

“Everybody is talking about AI and everybody is confused about how intelligent or not today’s AI systems are,” says SFI Professor Melanie Mitchell. “This whole notion of what, exactly, is intelligence ...

In celebration of SFI’s 40th anniversary, the 29th Annual Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series will address this Complex World. We live in a complex world, meaning one that is increasingly connected ...

Berdahl, A.,Torney, C. J.,Schertzer, E.,Levin, S. A. Dispersal, whether in the form of a dandelion seed drifting on the breeze, or a salmon migrating upstream to ...

It’s become easier than ever before to engage with content online, particularly with features like infinite scrolling.

To SFI External Professor Han van der Maas, psychology is the most fascinating science of all. It’s also one he sees as facing multiple crises — crises of theory, replication, and measurement.