>>13706368>Gell-mann and Santa Fe made it big with early ‘complexity’ theory in the sense of Game Of Life, fractals etc. All that is very passé now though.Lol what? Yeah game of life is passe, but thats because its research from the 70s. You have an extremely narrow understanding of cybernetics and complexity if you think that has been it only contribution. "Complexity" research is still a major and growing area. For example, network science is still an emerging field, and most of its key ideas only emerged since the 90s. Also, ergodic theory, which was intimately connected with this line of research has become a major established area of math. Furthermore, almost all of modern cognitive science, genetics, and mathematical biology has been greatly influenced by complexity and cybernetics. I mean, literally the entire "genomics revolution" that we have been experiencing for the last decade is rooted in mathematical biology and cybernetetics, and the work of people like Stuart Kauffman, John Maynard Smith, and Eors Szathmary. The entire extended modern synthesis in biology would not have occurred without complexity research, and central concepts in biology an philosophy like emergence, reductionism, extended & embodied cognition, etc. To a large extent, these idea were popularized by places like the Santa Fe Institute
