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The Dissenter · 2025-04-24 · 58 min · 7,572 words

#1088 Karoline Wiesner: What Is a Complex System?

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Carolyn Wissner. She's professor of complexity sciences at the University of Potsdam. And today we're going to talk about her book, What is a Complex System?

So Dr. Wisner, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Pleasure is with me. Thank you for having me.

Okay, so let's start perhaps with a bit of background here, just for people who are not really familiar with the topic, to get a little bit more familiarized with it. So what is complexity science? How old is it? Tell us a little bit about it and its history. Yeah, happy to.

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