"This past spring on my way to the Santa Fe Institute, home to polymath thinkers and thinking, tucked into the foothills of ...

In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and ...

Originally published in Nautilus Magazine's "Reality" issue, September 2024. Republished with permission. What is reality?

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. Our personal-level cognition and our relationships with others work in concert to shape our views of the world ...

It’s become easier than ever before to engage with content online, particularly with features like infinite scrolling. However, the smooth user experience of social media apps encourages superficial ...

“Everybody is talking about AI and everybody is confused about how intelligent or not today’s AI systems are,” says SFI Professor Melanie Mitchell. “This whole notion of what, exactly, is intelligence ...

Berdahl, A.,Torney, C. J.,Schertzer, E.,Levin, S. A. Dispersal, whether in the form of a dandelion seed drifting on the breeze, or a salmon migrating upstream to ...

SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (CU Boulder) has been named a “Schmidt Science Polymath” by the philanthropic organization ...