Category Archives: Complexity

Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

During COVID-19, governments and the public are fighting not only a pandemic but also a co-evolving infodemic—the rapid and far-reaching spread of information of questionable quality. We analysed more than 100 million Twitter messages posted worldwide during the early stages … Continue reading →

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Complex Systems in Medicine

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Book. This unique title explores complex systems in clinical medicine and the subsequent implementation of that knowledge into practice. Written conversationally and as a reflection on the journey of learning about complex systems, the book explores how knowledge of these … Continue reading →

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The fugue of life: why complexity matters in neuroscience

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

While it is unclear exactly which mechanisms give way to neural complexity and healthy behaviour, keeping track of complexity is important to understanding and identifying brain disorders such as epilepsy, autism and schizophrenia. Measuring the complexity of brain activity could … Continue reading →

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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general … Continue reading →

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The Complex Mind: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

The dominant approach of the last century to behaviour was ‘associationism’ – reducing the complexity of behaviour to the homogeneous strengthening and weakening of simple connections between stimuli and responses. Chomsky‘s devastating critique of this account of human language in … Continue reading →

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The Biology of Human Behavior: Key Insights

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Today you can do something that wasn’t possible for any previous generation. You can take a class from a Stanford professor without paying a dime. For the past month, I have been watching Robert Sapolsky give twenty five lectures about … Continue reading →