Books on the topic of complex adaptive systems

Regular readers will know that I think there are so many family resemblances across systems, complexity, and cybernetics that it’s invidious and counter-productive to attempt to draw those broad distinctions (see https://stream.syscoi.com/2020/04/21/bringing-together-some-reason-and-old-threads-on-systemsthinking-is-complexity-is-cybernetics/ ).

Nevertheless, the reading list at https://stream.syscoi.com/2020/05/06/a-very-rough-and-partial-draft-systems-thinking-reading-list/ – which is is avowedly rough and partial – doesn’t have a lot of things called ‘complexity’ on there.

You might also see https://stream.syscoi.com/2020/08/03/what-might-systems-leadership-be-and-how-does-it-relate-to-systems-change-a-happily-tentative-essay/

and https://stream.syscoi.com/2020/09/13/an-emergence-reading-list-axis-praxis/

For ‘complexity’:

A question on twitter

And another great thread:

Google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1imOfhdz0q1D5G5jMOC95_CxW7Hqb_J25Q9azAhF_U4o/edit?hl=en&hl=en#gid=0

A basic definition thread:

and, linked: