253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and […]
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Complexity
251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics;
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
Complexity scientists have been able to make an impressive amount of progress despite the fact that there is not universal
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237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how
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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Economies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
As a semi-outsider, it’s fun for me to watch as a new era dawns in biology: one that adds ideas
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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of
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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology
Physicists have traditionally simplified systems as much as possible, in order to shed light on fundamental properties. But small, simple
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