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Popular exposition of the theory of self-organising criticality developed by
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A philosophical interpretation of complexity theory that places its basic theory
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Joins the issue of "nature as self-organizing."
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Benoit Mandelbrot's classic work that sparked off the subject of Fractal.
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Arrow of time and the irreversibility of processes as constituting the sense
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