# Santa Fe Institute **Domain:** Complexity Science / Adaptive Systems / Emergence **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Complex Adaptive Systems]], [[Emergence]], [[Superorganism]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **Santa Fe Institute** is an independent research center devoted to complex systems: systems in which interacting parts generate adaptive, emergent and often nonlinear behavior. ## Corpus Context Its work supplies a scientific grammar for the corpus’s treatment of [[Superorganism|superorganisms]], networked intelligence, evolutionary search and governance arising from interaction rather than a single command center. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Santa Fe Institute](https://www.santafe.edu/)