Four Ways of Thinking : A Journey into Human Complexity

Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Four Ways
Starting the Journey
CLASS I: STATISTICAL THINKING
Bright young fellows
Very average friends
A likely answer
The power of stats
Twelve extra years
How do you take your tea?
A happy world
The happy individual
Angry old man
The forest and the tree
More than this
CLASS II: INTERACTIVE THINKING
The cycle of life
Rabbits and foxes
Social chemistry
The social epidemic
More than the sum of its parts
Start a fitness craze
A third law
Cellular automata
The art of a good argument
Top down, bottom up
CLASS III: CHAOTIC THINKING
Always knowing the next step
Nudge
El Farol
The chocolate cake of chaos
The mistake
The butterfly effect
The night sky: part 1
The night sky: part 2
The perfect wedding
Cellular chaos
A message from B to C
Information equals randomness
Twenty questions
A good listener always asks questions
Entropy never decreases
Living in a distribution
Word games
Taking the high road
A sea of words
CLASS IV: COMPLEX THINKING
The World Congress
The matrix
Four people in a car
Only as complex as its shortest description
The streets of London
I, II, III, IV
All of the life
The hard edges of social reality
A person is a person through other people
Here it is!
It’s complicated
Almost always complicated
Who am I?
A life in short scenes
An indescribable explanation
The least words are the deepest
Four ways
A worthy life
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
About the Author
Copyright