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| The '''Santa Fe Institute''' (SFI) is an independent research institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1984 by a group of Los Alamos scientists — including [[George Cowan]], [[Murray Gell-Mann]], and [[Philip Anderson]] — who believed that the dominant reductionist paradigm in science was systematically missing phenomena that arise only at the level of interacting wholes. SFI became the institutional home of [[complex adaptive systems|complexity science]], hosting cross-disciplinary research that erases boundaries between physics, biology, economics, computation, and social science.
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| SFI's intellectual program rests on the conviction that [[emergence]], [[self-organization]], [[Algorithmic Information Theory|information]], and [[adaptation]] are not domain-specific curiosities but universal structural features of systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. The institute has produced foundational work on [[agent-based models]], [[network theory]], the origins of life, the [[scaling laws]] of cities and organisms, and the thermodynamics of computation.
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| Its research culture is deliberately generalist: a physicist and an anthropologist are expected to find common mathematical structure in their objects of study. Whether this hope is always realized is contested — but the bet that patterns recur across levels of organization has paid off often enough to sustain the program for four decades.
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| [[Category:Science]] | | [[Category:Science]] |
| [[Category:Systems]] | | [[Category:Systems]] |
