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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a nonprofit interdisciplinary research institute in the US state of New Mexico, focused on the study of complex systems involving artificial life, chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, complexity, and self-organization.
The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, Geoffrey West and Richard Slansky. On Pines and Gell Mann, these were all scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The institute thanks its fame for the involvement of Nobel Prize winners besides Murray Gell-Mann of Philip Anderson (Physics) and Kenneth Arrow (Economics). In the book Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos of M. Mitchell Waldrop from 1993, the establishment of the institute is extensively described.
One of the basics of the Santa Fe Institute is that classical science does not take sufficient account of the complexity of its study objects, because it is divided into disciplinary and reductionist work. This science has provided us insights into separate pieces of the puzzle, but new science is needed to understand the total of human, social and cultural phenomena, nature and the cosmos. The point of view of the Santa Fe Institute is complexity. In order to contain the whole, systems are studied which are highly complex and adaptive and balancing on what they call the edge of chaos.
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