106 | Stuart Bartlett on What “Life” Means
Someday, most likely, we will encounter life that is not as we know it. We might find it elsewhere in […]
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Complexity
99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer
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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life
We are all alive, but “life” is something we struggle to understand. How do we distinguish a “living organism” from
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
Wilfrid Sellars described the task of philosophy as explaining how things, in the broadest sense of term, hang together, in
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72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe
Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in which a mischievous imp uses knowledge of the velocities of gas molecules
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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
Our observable universe started out in a highly non-generic state, one of very low entropy, and disorderliness has been growing
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Episode 41: Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior
One of the most important insights in the history of science is the fact that complex behavior can arise from
Episode 33: James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
Reality is a tricky thing. Is love real? What about the number 5? This is clearly a job for a
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Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight
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