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Haven't read the whole thing yet but in "Meet Joe" I found a very astute description of the situation my best friend and I were commiserating about just yesterday.

Through the common cog blog I also stumbled onto this book recommendation: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop; and it feels like the complexity of today's world is partly responsible for this loss of agency many of us experience and dread

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If the subject are interested you I highly recommend picking up the Quark and theJaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann. Its a foundational survey work in the subject and delightfully approachable (even though its theoretical physicist author doesn't consider himself much of a writer.) The author, who also happens to be the Nobel laureate whom gave the quark its name (after hypothesizing it's existence) is one of the founders of the Institute for Complexity Studies where much of the field's research activity is concentrated.

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