TEDxUHowest - Walter Dejonghe - Complexity and emergence by example
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Walter Dejonghe is a research fellow in Howest, University College of West-Flanders. He is specializing in mathematical models for creative stimulation. The talk in this TEDx is about the non-reductability of reality to our models and the unavoidability of emergence. About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local... Read more
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- -: TEDxUHowest - Walter Dejonghe - Complexity and emergence by example
February 19, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Walter Dejonghe is a research fellow in Howest, University College of West-Flanders. He is specializing in mathematical models for creative stimulation. The talk in this TEDx is about the non-reductability of reality to our models and the unavoidability of emergence. About TEDx In the spirit of...
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