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Carlos Gershenson

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SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at Binghamton University https://tendrel.binghamton.edu President Complex Systems Society @cssociety.bsky.social

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 21

New preprint: "Life Finds A Way: Emergence of Cooperative Structures in Adaptive Threshold Networks" with Sean Maley and Stuart Kauffman
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13253

Life Finds A Way: Emergence of Cooperative Structures in Adaptive Threshold Networks

There has been a long debate on how new levels of organization have evolved. It might seem unlikely, as cooperation must prevail over competition. One well-studied example is the emergence of autocata...

arxiv.org

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 12d

I'll give a seminar on Complexity and Buddhism on October 3rd at Musashino University in Tokyo.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 19d

“Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.”
—Tokugawa Ieyasu

Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 22d

In one month I'll speak at the Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social about the limits of network science.
See you in Boston or online!
www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/carlos...

Talks at NetSI | Carlos Gershenson

On the Limits of Network Science

www.networkscienceinstitute.org

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25d

Por si se lo perdieron en vivo, lo pueden ver: www.youtube.com/live/Aq9oyZE...

Seminario Bioética, no dualidad y ciencias de la complejidad, “Verdad, realidad y contextualidad”.

YouTube video by Programa Universitario de Bioética UNAM

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Sep 4

My fourth day at #CCS2025 starts in the physics of self-organization satellite, where @cgershen.bsky.social discussed a balance-based narrative to explain complex systems science to the general public. He gave us a historical overview on the topic and then a formalization of his ideas.

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Sep 3

#CCS2025 Complex Systems, Data Analytics, and Human Behavior satellite keynote Carlos Gershenson discusses efforts to make studies of social behaviors as quantitative "hard" science

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Sep 3

#CCS2025 @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social dinner!
(There are 7 of us coming from Binghamton to CCS this year)

Thanks @cgershen.bsky.social for hosting us

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks Professor Carlos Gershenson for the welcoming speech on the second day of CCS25!

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you Prof. Bela Bollobas (University of Cambridge) for the inspiring talk “From Ulam - von Neumann Cellular Automata and Bootstrap Percolation to U-Percolation” at CCS 2025!

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Aug 5

Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 23

We also propose a measure of classifiability, which serves as a theoretical limit on the best possible performance of any algorithm.

Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 23

Paper published on the limits of classifiability with Mario Franco, Gerardo Febres, Nelson Fernández
epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
We show that the nature of datasets imposes inherent limits on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The art of misclassification: too many classes, not enough points - EPJ Data Science

Classification is a ubiquitous and fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive efforts dedicated to developing more powerful classifiers and larger datasets. Ho...

epjdatascience.springeropen.com

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 21

This suggests that the evolution of higher complexity in the universe should be expected, since new levels of organization emerge as quantity becomes quality

Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 21

With an extremely simple mathematical model, we show that, even when probabilities of having "cooperative/symbiotic/catalytic/beneficial" interactions are ridiculously low, communities of mutualistic agents eventually emerge.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · Jul 21

New preprint: "Life Finds A Way: Emergence of Cooperative Structures in Adaptive Threshold Networks" with Sean Maley and Stuart Kauffman
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13253

Life Finds A Way: Emergence of Cooperative Structures in Adaptive Threshold Networks

arxiv.org