Plectics (from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
πλεκτός ''plektos'', "woven") is the name that
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical ...
, a
Nobel Laureate in
Physics
Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
, has suggested for the research area described by Gell-Mann as "a broad transdisciplinary subject covering aspects of simplicity and
complexity as well as the properties of
complex adaptive system
A complex adaptive system is a system that is '' complex'' in that it is a dynamic network of interactions, but the behavior of the ensemble may not be predictable according to the behavior of the components. It is '' adaptive'' in that the indiv ...
s, including composite complex adaptive systems consisting of many adaptive agents".
[Murray Gell-Mann]
"Let's Call It Plectics"
''Complexity'', Vol. 1, no. 5 (1995/96).
Etymology
Murray Gell-Mann explains the derivation of the word as follows:
See also
*
Computational cybernetics
*
Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, inclu ...
References
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