Solar system or neural network?

Some time ago, I gave the talk for one of our occasional ‘men’s breakfasts’ at church. I spoke on the topic of ‘Connections and Complexity’, looking at how complexity arises in systems of many interconnected elements, even where those individual elements are fairly simple. I looked at a few different complex systems that are of […]

Strong, yet weak

A couple of months ago, I was planning to start a new series on this blog but since then life has become dominated by coronavirus. We have largely been confined to our house for most of this time. Other parts of life have also faced major disruption – for example our planned Easter holiday was […]