How Nature Works
The Science of Self-organized Criticality
by Per Bak
Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Tren Griffin
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
and acknowledgments Selforganized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised statethe critical statewhere anything can happen within welldefined statistical laws. The aim of the science of selforganized criticality is to yield insight into the funda...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“@m_farda Read the papers and the book. The sand pile is a metaphor. Self organized criticality applies in biology. Look at the book title:”
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“Reading feels brisk and combative: clear metaphors and thought experiments carry much of the book, making abstract evolutionary mechanics concrete for a general reader. The most useful material offers step-by-step dismantling of purposive explanations and replaces them with probabilistic accounts of variation and selection. Main limitation is tone and repetition—several chapters restate the same counterarguments at length—and occasional technical detours into probability and genetics that slow readers who prefer story over demonstration. No hands-on exercises.”
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