In her blog Back Re(Action), the physicist Sabine Hossenfelder offers an analysis of emergence. She states that emergence, “broadly speaking refers to novel types of behavior in systems with many ...

This study is led by Prof. Jiang Zhang (School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University and Swarma Research). He has been pursuing the essence behind the emergent phenomena in complex systems.

Researchers quantified the collective action of small schools of fish using information theory. They found that groups of three act very differently compared with groups of just two. This work may ...