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Stuart Kauffman is a figure in the field with much more difficult books if that's more to your liking.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-order...

[ixaxaar]

I think Kauffman has been developing this set of ideas for a while now. I remember reading his "the origins of order" and find a lot of the ideas from the book here in more evolved forms. He really got me into visualising complex systems and their state spaces etc.