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Ilya Prigogine explains how physics is much like music

January 21, 2008 at 8:57 am · Filed under Complexity theory

From his own rather complex history Ilya Prigogine, the Russian born Belgian national residing in USA has developed a Nobel Prize winning theory of complex physics. He was one of the pioneers in disproving the deterministic newtonian world view. In this clip he explains how the physical world, much like music and arts, follow strict rules and at the same time display an astonishing degree of unpredictability and complexity way beyond that of deterministic linear systems.  

Enjoy how he in an amazing Russian-Franco-German English with remarkable ease explains complexity theory so any high school student with an msn account gets the idea..
Because the world is like music. 

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2752 nodes of complexity in the K-profil network

November 15, 2007 at 8:53 am · Filed under Complexity theory, Network analysis

When browsing the litterature on Social Network Analysis (SNA) most actual analyses contain only very few nodes, like 20-100 at most. While these analyses inform the methodology of SNA they do not tell us much about complex networks. 100 nodes can only reproduce so much complexity, so my friend and colleague Timme and I want to do better. We want to do a SNA of a network of 2752 nodes in the K-profil network. Now that’s complexity. But also it proves a huge challenge.

Lesson #1: Complexity is really complex

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