Murray Gell-Mann | A Pardee Distinguished Lecture
Murray Gell-Mann on Regularities and Randomness in the Past and the Future (Part One)
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of complexity and explains how a relatively large number of individual components interact to form regularities, which may come to form a complex system. The concept of “effective complexity” is also introduced, as exemplified by quantum physics, and it is pointed out that fundamental laws of physics are probabilistic, not deterministic.
Dr. Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences.