ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the concept of protectorates to characterize emergent physical phenomena governed by emergent rules that are insensitive to microscopics. It provides a personal perspective on the role played by Institute of Complex Adaptive Matter, which began in 1998 with six branches and has twenty-six branches in North America and twenty-three branches in Asia, Europe, South America, and Israel. The chapter considers the role played by emergence in an online course, “Physics for the Twenty-First Century”, and an emergence-based university course, “Gateways to Emergent Behavior in Science and Society”. It suggests that “complex adaptive matter” might offer that theme, since complex adaptive systems had proved to be a unifying theme for the Santa Fe Institute. The study of emergent behavior at every level is as fundamental as work on the laws that govern the behavior of quarks and gluons.
