Afleveringen
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Guests:
Melanie Moses, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology at University of New MexicoHyejin Youn, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Associate Professor at Institute of Northwestern UniversityHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano
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Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedIn ⢠BlueskyMore info:
SFI programs: Education
Complexity Explorer:
Fractals and Scaling
Fractals and Scaling: Toward a Theory of Urban Scaling
Introduction to Complexity: Ant Foraging and Task Allocation
Books: Scale by Geoffrey WestComplexity: a Guided Tour by Melanie MitchellTalks:
Toward a Scientific Theory of Cities by Hyejin YounPapers & Articles:
âSynergy in ant foraging strategies: memory and communication alone and in combination,â in GECCOâ13: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (July 6, 2013), doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463389âIn vivo, in silico, in machina: Ants and Robots balance memory and communication to collectively exploit information,â in Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012âWhat makes individual Iâs a Collective We; coordination mechanisms & costsâ in arXiv (November 20, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02113âHow does innovation push its boundaries?â in 43 Visions for Complexity, Exploring Complexity: Volume 3 (January 2017), doi.org/10.1142/9789813206854_0043 -
Guests:
Brian Enquist, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of ArizonaPablo Marquet, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor at Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad CatĂłlica de ChileHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano
Other music: Craig Smith, Justkiddink, MaestroALF, ComputerHotline, James Ro Davidson, SoundEnsemble, Trundlefly, Geoff Bremner, Newagesgroup, Oddmonoliths, Thepla
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Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedIn ⢠BlueskyMore info:
SFI programs: Education
Complexity Explorer: Origins of Life: Astrobiology & General Theories for Life - Scaling with Pablo Marquet
Books:
Scale by Geoffrey WestScaling Biodiversity (Ecological Reviews) edited by David Storch, Pablo Marquet , James Brown How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas (Ecological Studies Book 162) edited by Gay A. Bradshaw and Pablo A. MarquetTalks:
Better Forecasting our Ecological Future: Taming Big Data with Big Theory, Brian EnquistPapers & Articles:
âMore than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change,â in Nature Communications (January 2, 2024), doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44321-9âMetastatic cells exploit their stoichiometric niche in the network of cancer ecosystems,â in Science Advances (December 13, 2023), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi79âEnvironmental heterogeneity as a driver of terrestrial biodiversity on a global scaleâ in PPG: Earth and Environment (August 11, 2023), doi.org/10.1177/03091333231189045âThe number of tree species on Earth,â PNAS (Jan 31, 2022), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115329119âGlobally important plant functional traits for coping with climate change,â in Frontiers of Biogeography (October 2, 2021), doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG53774âScaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories,â Advances in Ecological Research (May 4, 2015), doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.02.001âA general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics,â PNAS (April 28, 2009), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812294106 -
Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Guests:
Ricard SolĂŠ, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Head of the Complex Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu FabraSara Walker, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Associate Director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex SystemsHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano
Other music: Matucha, Kijjaz, Klankbeeld, Aesterial-Arts, Dijifishmusic, Greenvwbeetle, Odilon Marcenaro, Jobro, Benboncan, Bone666138, Aiwha, Josh Berry, Rubenvvuuren, and Miksmusic
Follow us on: Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedIn ⢠Bluesky
SFI programs:
Complexity Explorer: Origins of LifeEducationBooks & Films:
Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, based on book by Mary ShelleyThe Computer and the Brain, by John von NeumannSigns of life: How complexity pervades biology by Ricard V. SolĂŠ and Brian C. GoodwinTalks:
Liquid and Solid Brains: Mapping the Cognition Space by Ricard SolĂŠEvolving Brains: Solid, Liquid and Synthetic by Ricard SolĂŠA Universal Theory of Life: Math, Art & Information by Sara WalkerPapers & Articles:
âAssembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolutionâ in Nature (October 4, 2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06600-9âTime is an objectâ in Aeon, May 19, 2023âThe Algorithmic Origins of Lifeâ in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (February 6, 2013) doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0869âEvolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads Not Takenâ in Entropy (May 9, 2022), doi.org/10.3390/e24050665âUnicellularâmulticellular evolutionary branching driven by resource limitationsâ (June 2, 2022) doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0018 -
Guests:
Vijay Balasubramanian, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of PennsylvaniaGeoffrey West, Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe InstituteHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music: Mitch Mignano
Other Music: Blue Dot Sessions, Pink House Music, Eardeer, and Craig Smith.
Follow us on: Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedIn ⢠Bluesky
SFI programs:
Complexity Global School Complexity Explorer: Fractals & ScalingEducationBooks & Stories:
Tell Me Why by Arkady LeokumScale by Geoffrey WestâFunes, the Memoriousâ by Jorge Luis BorgesTalks:
How the Brain Makes You: Collective Intelligence and Computation by Neural Circuits by Vijay BalasubramanianThe Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey WestEnergy, Scaling & The Future of Life on Earth by Geoffrey WestComplex Time Working Group: âWhat is Sleep?â with Geoffrey West, Van Savage, Alex HermanPapers:
âBrain Powerâ in PNAS (August 2, 2021) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.210702211âThe Physical Effects of Learningâ preprint published in biorxivâUnraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early developmentâ in Science Advances (September 18, 2020) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0398âThe Scales That Limit: The Physical Boundaries of Evolutionâ in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (August 7, 2019) doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00242 -
Trailer for Complexity: Physics of Life, from the Santa Fe Institute
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Episode Title and Show Notes:
106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
Welcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm Michael Garfield, producer of this show and host for the last 105 episodes. Since October, 2019, we have brought you with us for far ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe. Today I step down and depart from SFI with one final appearance as the guest of this episode. Our guest host is SFI President David Krakauer, he and I will braid together with nine other conversations from the archives in a retrospective masterclass on how this podcast traced the contours of complexity. We'll look back on episodes with David, Brian Arthur, Geoffrey West, Doyne Farmer, Deborah Gordon, Tyler Marghetis, Simon DeDeo, Caleb Scharf, and Alison Gopnik to thread some of the show's key themes through into windmills and white whales, SFI pursues, and my own life's persistent greatest questions.
We'll ask about the implications of a world transformed by science and technology by deeper understanding and prediction and the ever-present knock-on consequences. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify and consider making a donation or finding other ways to engage with SFI at Santa fe.edu/engage. Thank you each and all for listening. It's been a pleasure and an honor to take you offroad with us over these last years.
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đReading & Videos:
The Lost World
by Michael CrichtonJurassic Park
by Michael CrichtonThe Evolution of Syntactic Communication
by Martin Nowak, Joshua Plotkin, and Vincent JansenInterPlanetary Festival 2018 + SFI Science Explainer Animations
by SFIComplexity Economics
by SFI PressSupertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism
by Simon DeDeo (2019 SFI Seminar)How To Live in The Future, Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed
by Michael GarfieldArtists Misusing Technology
by NXT MuseumThe Collapse of Artificial Intelligence
by Melanie Mitchell (2019 SFI Symposium Talk)The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models
by Melanie Mitchell & David KrakauerWelcome To Jurassic Park
by Tink Zorg
(re: COVID-19 and the collapse of supply chains)Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
by Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta Magazine
(re: Albert Kao)Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism
by Jessica FlackArgument Making In The Wild
by Simon DeDeo
(SFI Seminar re: egregores)The Collective Computation of Reality in Nature and Society
by Jessica Flack (SFI Community Lecture re: âhourglass emergenceâ)Interaction-based evolution: how natural selection and nonrandom mutation work together
by Adi LivnatIn The Country of The Blind (_Afterword: An Introduction to Cliology)
by Michael FlynnAn exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence
by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, David WolpertMurray Gell-Mann - Information overload. A crude look at the whole (180/200)
(re: the challenges of funding truly innovative research)The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction
by W.J.T. MitchellKen Wilber
Intelligence as a planetary scale process
by Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, and Sara WalkerLight & Magic (documentary series)
on Disney+Palantir Analytics
The Lord of The Rings
by J.R.R. TolkienPresent Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas RushkoffMichael Levin
Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down
by Vasilis Dakos, Egbert H van Nes, Paolo DâOdorico, Marten SchefferThe Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
by Cosma Shaliziđ§Podcasts:
Complexity Podcast
001 - David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science
009 - Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making
012 - Matthew Jackson on Social and Economic Networks
013 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics
016 - Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy
036 - Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse?
056 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
060 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldtâs Naturegemälde
065 - Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers
067 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
072 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
087 - Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
090 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
92 - Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
099 - Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
Future Fossils Podcast
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science165 - Kevin Kelly on Time, Memory, Change, and Vanishing Asia
125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible
Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano
Other music by Michael Garfield
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One way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links â relationships that grow and break in nested groups of multilayer networks. Identity can be defined by informational exchange between one cluster of relationships and any other. A kind of music starts to make itself apparent in the avalanche of data and new analytical approaches that a century of innovation has availed us. But just as with new music genres, it requires a trained ear to attune to unfamiliar orderâŚwhat can we learn from network science and related general, abstract mathematical approaches to discovering this order in a flood of numbers?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and in every episode we bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we speak with SFI External Professor, UCLA mathematician Mason Porter (UCLA Website, Twitter, Google Scholar, Wikipedia), about his research on community detection in networks and the topology of data â going deep into a varied toolkit of approaches that help scientists disclose deep structures in the massive data-sets produced by modern life.
If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
I know it comes as a surprise, but this is our penultimate episode. Please stay tuned for one more show in May when SFI President David Krakauer and I will reflect on major themes and highlights from the last three-and-a-half years, and look forward to what Iâll be doing next! Itâs been an honor and a pleasure to bring complex systems science to you in this way, and hope we stay in touch. I wonât be hard to find.
Thank you for listening.
Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.
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Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedInMentioned & Related Media:
Bounded Confidence Models of Opinion Dynamics on Networks
SFI Seminar by Mason Porter (live Twitter coverage & YouTube stream recording)Communities in Networks
by Mason Porter, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, & Peter MuchaSocial Structure of Facebook Networks
by Amanda Traud, Peter Mucha, & Mason PorterCritical Truths About Power Laws
by Michael Stumpf & Mason PorterThe topology of data
by Mason Porter, Michelle Feng, & Eleni KatiforiComplex networks with complex weights
by Lucas BĂśttcher & Mason A. PorterA Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs
by Abigail Hicock, Yacoub Kureh, Heather Z. Brooks, Michelle Feng, & Mason PorterA multilayer network model of the coevolution of the spread of a disease and competing opinions
by Kaiyan Peng, Zheng Lu, Vanessa Lin, Michael Lindstrom, Christian Parkinson, Chuntian Wang, Andrea Bertozzi, & Mason PorterSocial network analysis for social neuroscientists
Elisa C Baek, Mason A Porter, & Carolyn ParkinsonCommunity structure in social and biological networks
by Michelle Girvan & Mark NewmanThe information theory of individuality
by David Krakauer, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Jessica C Flack, Nihat AySocial capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
by Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo BarberĂĄ, Monica Bhole & Nils WernerfeltHierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks
by Aaron Clauset, Cristopher Moore, M.E.J. NewmanGregory Bateson (Wikipedia)
Complexity Ep. 99 - Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
âWhy Do We Sleep?â
by Van Savage & Geoffrey West at Aeon MagazineComplexity Ep. 4 - Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
Complexity Ep. 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
Complexity Ep. 68 - W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
Complexity Ep. 100 - Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds
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For centuries, Medieval life in Europe meant a world determined and prescribed by church and royalty. The social sphere was very much a pyramid, and everybody had to answer to and fit within the schemes of those on top. And then, on wings of reason, Modern selves emerged to scrutinize these systems and at great cost swap them for others that more evenly distribute power and authority. Cosmic forces preordained oneâs role within a transcendental orderâŚbut then, across quick decades of upheaval, philosophy and politics started celebrating self-determination and free will. Art and science blossomed as they wove together. Nothing was ever the same.
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we engage with returning guest, New York Times best-selling author of seven books and SFI Miller Scholar Andrea Wulf, about her latest lovingly-detailed long work, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self. In this episode we explore the conditions for an 18th century revolution in philosophy, science, literature, and lifestyle springing from Jena, Germany. Over just a few years, an extraordinary confluence of history-making figures such as Goethe, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, and Novalis helped rewrite what was possible for human thought and action. Admist a landscape of political revolt, this braid of brilliant friends and enemies and lovers altered what it means to be a self and how the modern self relates to everything it isnât, inspiring later British and American Romantic movements. Arguing for art and the imagination in the work of science and infusing art with reason, Jenaâs rebels of the mind lived bold, iconoclastic lives that seem 200 years ahead in retrospect. We stand to learn a great deal from a careful look at Jena and the first RomanticsâŚmaybe even how to replicate their great successes and avoid their self-implosion in the face of social turbulence.
If you value our research and communication efforts, Please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/podcastgive. You can find numerous other ways to engage with us at santafe.edu/engage â in particular, you may wish to celebrate ten years of free online courses at Complexity Explorer with SFI Professor Cris Mooreâs Computation in Complex Systems, starting March 28th. Learn more in the show notesâŚand thank you for listening!
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Related Reading & Listening:
Episode 60 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde
Episode 61 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldtâs New World
by Andrea WulfMagnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
by Andrea WulfCommon As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
by Lewis HydeEpisode 37 - The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales
âNatureâ (1844)
by Ralph Waldo EmersonChopinâs Preludes
Finnegans Wake
by James JoyceInterPlanetary Voyager (Interactive Golden Record Liner Notes)
by SFIâs InterPlanetary FestivalBlue Planet (BBC)
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How do we get a handle on complex systems thinking? What are the implications of this science for philosophy, and where does philosophical tradition foreshadow findings from the scientific frontier?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
In this episode we speak with Carlos Gershenson (UNAM website, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Twitter), SFI Sabbatical Visitor and professor of computer science at the Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂŠxico, where he leads the Self-organizing Systems Lab, among many other titles you can find in our show notes. For the next hour, weâll discuss his decades of research and writing on a vast array of core complex systems concepts and their intersections with both Western and Eastern philosophical traditions â a first for this podcast.
If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
For HD virtual backgrounds of the SFI campus to use on video calls and a chance to win a signed copy of one of our books from the SFI Press, please help us improve our scicomm by completing a survey linked in the show notes.
Or just a copy of the recently resurfaced SFI Press Archival Volume Complexity, Entropy, and The Physics of Information.
Thereâs still time to apply for the Complexity GAINS UK program for PhD students â apps close March 15th.
Or come work for us! We are on the lookout for a new Digital Media Specialist, an Applied Complexity Fellow in Sustainability, a Research Assistant in Emergent Political Economies, and a Payroll, Accounts Payable & Receivable Specialist.
You can also join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.
Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.
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Carlos publishes the Complexity Digest Newsletter.
His SFI Seminars to date:
A Brief History of Balance
Emergence, (Self)Organization, and Complexity
Criticality: A Balance Between Robustness and Adaptability
Festina lente (the slower-is-faster effect)
Antifragility: Dynamical BalanceW. Ross Ashby & The Law of Requisite Variety
Hyperobjects
by Timothy MortonHow can we think the complex?
by Carlos Gershenson and Francis HeylighenThe Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy
by Carlos GershensonComplexity and Philosophy
by Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos GershensonHeterogeneity extends criticality
by Fernanda SĂĄnchez-Puig, Octavio Zapata, Omar K, Pineda, Gerardo IĂąiguez, and Carlos GershensonWhen Can we Call a System Self-organizing?
by Carlos Gershenson and Francis HeylighenTemporal, Structural, and Functional Heterogeneities Extend Criticality and Antifragility in Random Boolean Networks
by Amahury Jafet LĂłpez-DĂaz, Fernanda SĂĄnchez-Puig, and Carlos GershensonWhen slower is faster
by Carlos Gershenson, Dirk HelbingSelf-organization leads to supraoptimal performance in public transportation systems
by Carlos GershensonDynamics of ranking
by Gerardo IĂąiguez, Carlos Pineda, Carlos Gershenson, & Albert-LĂĄszlĂł BarabĂĄsiSelf-Organizing Traffic Lights
by Carlos GershensonDynamic competition and resource partitioning during the early life of two widespread, abundant and ecologically similar fishes
by A. D. Nunn, L. H. Vickers, K. Mazik, J. D. Bolland, G. Peirson, S. N. Axford, A. Henshaw & I. G. CowxTowards a general theory of balance
by Carlos GershensonA Calculus for Self-Reference
by Francisco VarelaOn Some Mental Effects of The Earthquake
by William JamesSelf-Organization Leads to Supraoptimal Performance in Public Transportation Systems
by Carlos GershensonAlison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
Complexity Ep. 99Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
Complexity Ep. 72David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
Complexity Ep. 45The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
by Stewart BrandMichael Lachmann
Stuart Kauffman
Andreas Wagner
Cosma Shalizi
Nassim Taleb
Does Free Will Violate The Laws of Physics?
Big Think interviews Sean Carroll -
And now for something completely different! Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, celebrating the immensely long time horizon, deep scientific and philosophical questions, psychological challenges, and engineering problems involved in humankindâs Great Work to extend its understanding and presence into outer space. For our third edition, we turned our attention to visionary projects living generations will likely not live to see completed â interstellar travel, off-world cities, radical new ways of understanding spacetime â as an invitation to engage in science as not merely interesting but deeply fun. For our first panel, we decided to inquire: What is time, really? How has science fiction changed the way we track and measure, speak about, and live in time? And how do physics and complex systems science pose and answer these most fundamental questions?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
In this weekâs episode, we share the Complex Conceptions of Time panel from InterPlanetary Festival 2022, moderated by SFI President David Krakauer and featuring an all-star trinity of panelists: science journalist James Gleick, sci-fi author and SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang, and physicist and SFI Professor David Wolpert. In this hour, we play with and dissect some favorite metaphors for time, unroll the history of timeâs mathematization, review time travel in science fiction, and examine the arguments between free will and determinism.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com â as well as the extensive, interactive web-based âVoyager Golden Record Liner Notesâ with links to not only all of the panels from IPFest 2022 but also copious additional resources, including contributor bios, peer-reviewed publications, science fiction and nonfiction science writing, and moreâŚ
If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
If youâd like some HD virtual backgrounds of the SFI campus to use on video calls and a chance to win a signed copy of one of our books from the SFI Press, help us improve our science communication by completing a survey about our various scicomm channels. Thanks for your time!
Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas, a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more. Space is limited! The application deadline has been extended to March 1st.
OR apply to the Graduate Workshop on Complexity in Social Science.
OR the Complexity GAINS UK program for PhD students.
(OR check our open listings for a staff or research job!)
Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.
Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.
Episode cover art by Michael Garfield with the help of Midjourney.
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Twitter ⢠YouTube ⢠Facebook ⢠Instagram ⢠LinkedIn(SOME) Mentioned & Related Links:
David Krakauer
Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics
by Nicolas Gisin
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math
by Natalie Wolchover
The Principle of Least Action
Path Integral Formulation
Closed Timelike Curve
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
Kip ThorneJames Gleick
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
The Physicist and The Philosopher
by Jimena CanalesTed Chiang
âStory of Your Lifeâ
Arrival
Exhalation
Russian Doll (TV series)
âThe Merchant and the Alchemist's GateâDavid Wolpert
Complexity 94 - David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
Complexity 45 - David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâs Court by Mark Twain
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There are maps, and there are territories, and humans frequently confuse the two. No matter how insistently this point has been made by cognitive neuroscience, epistemology, economics, and a score of other disciplines, one common human error is to act as if we know what we should measure, and that what we measure is what matters. But what we value doesnât even always have a metric. And even reasonable proxies can distort our understanding of and behavior in the world we want to navigate. Even carefully collected biometric data can occlude the other factors that determine health, or can oversimplify a nuanced conversation on the plural and contextual dimensions of health, transforming goals like functional fitness into something easier to quantify but far less useful. This philosophical conundrum magnifies when we consider governance at scales beyond those at which Homo sapiens evolved to grasp intuitively: What should we count to wisely operate a nation-state? How do we practice social science in a way that can inform new, smarter species of political economy? And how can we escape the seductive but false clarity of systems that rain information but do not enhance collective wisdom?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week on the show we talk to SFI External Professor Paul Smaldino at UC Merced and University of Utah Professor of Philosophy C. Thi Nguyen. In this episode we talk about value capture and legibility, viewpoint diversity, issues that plague big governments, and expert identification problemsâŚand map the challenges âahead of usâ as SFI continues as the hub of a five-year international research collaboration into emergent political economies. (Find links to all previous episodes in this sub-series in the notes below.)
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
If youâd like some HD virtual backgrounds of the SFI campus to use on video calls and a chance to win a signed copy of one of our books from the SFI Press, help us improve our science communication by completing a survey about our various scicomm channels. Thanks for your time!
Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas, a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more. Space is limited! The application deadline has been extended to March 1st.
OR apply to the Graduate Workshop on Complexity in Social Science.
OR the Complex ity GAINS UK program for PhD students.
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Transparency Is Surveillance
by C. Thi NguyenThe Seductions of Clarity
by C. Thi NguyenThe Natural Selection of Bad Science
by Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreathMaintaining transient diversity is a general principle for improving collective problem solving
by Paul Smaldino, Cody Moser, Alejandro PĂŠrez Velilla, Mikkel WerlingThe Division of Cognitive Labor
by Philip KitcherThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in The Natural Sciences
by Eugene WignerOn Crashing The Barrier of Meaning in A.I.
by Melanie MitchellSeeing Like A State
by James C. ScottJim Rutt
Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science
by Johan Chu and James EvansThe Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative
by Wendy Carlin and Samuel BowlesPeter Turchin
In The Country of The Blind
by Michael Flynn82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)
91 - Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
97 - Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)
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This is a podcast by and for the curious â and yet, in over three years, we have pointed curiosity at nearly every topic but itself. What is it, anyway? Are there worse and better frames for understanding how desire and wonder, exploration and discovery play out in both the brain and in society? How is scientific research like an amble through the woods? What juicy insights bubble up where neuroscientists, historians, philosophers, and mathematicians meet to answer questions like these? And how long of a path must we traverse to get there?
In this episode, we talk with SFI External Professor Dani Bassett, physicist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and their birth twin Perry Zurn, philosopher at American University in Washington, DC. You might consider each one of two lenses in a stereoscopic inquiry. Their new MIT Press book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection bridges quantity and quality to recast curiosity as a phenomenon of networks â as a kind of âedgeworkâ (generative, drawing new associations) instead of âacquistionâ (of individuals collecting facts). The brain, after all, is made of networked neurons, and societyâs a kind of super-brain of networked people, so why not think in terms of links? Their research offers a taxonomy of kinds of curiosity â three different ways that people move through knowledge networks. Traveling across a web of related ideas, rupturing and mending, weaving, percolating, synthesizing, we embody and perform the objects of their academic study. We hope you find this lively and self-referential conversation offers you a helpful map as you draw your distinct connectome through the world of what is and what could be known...
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas, a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more. Space is limited! Apps close February 1st.
OR Apply to participate in the Complex Systems Summer School.
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Thank you for listeningâŚ
EDITORIAL CORRECTION: We mention a review of Cormac McCarthy's latest novels in this discussion. The correct link is to James Woodâs piece in The New Yorker, not Michael Gorraâs in NYRB.
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Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
by Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett (MIT Press, 2022)
Curiosity as filling, compressing, and reconfiguring knowledge networks
by Shubhankar P. Patankar, Dale Zhou, Christopher W. Lynn, Jason Z. Kim, Mathieu Ouellet, Harang Ju, Perry Zurn, David M. Lydon-Staley, Dani S. Bassett
Murray Gell-Mann on information overload (from A Crude Look At The Whole) [Video]
The Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates by SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner
Complexity 99: Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
Complexity 80: Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
Busybody, Hunter, Dancer: Three Historical Models of Curiosity
by Perry Zurn
Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity
by David M. Lydon-Staley, Dale Zhou, Ann Sizemore Blevins, Perry Zurn & Danielle S. Bassett
Complexity 29: On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer
The Dimensions of Experience: A Natural History of Consciousness by Andrew P. Smith
Complexity 68: W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
Complexity 90: Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Complexity 94: David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
Complexity 35: Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
Complexity 87: Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists
by Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara & Danielle S. Bassett
Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice by Cleo WĂślfle Hazard
The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dirk Brockmannâs interactive explorables
Nicky Caseâs interactive explorables
The Thing From The Future (speculative futurism card game by Stuart Candy & Jeff Watson at Situation Lab)
Bayo Akomolafe (re: networks, the nonhuman turn, and questioning the rhetoric of individuals as âdesignersâ)
LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models
by Christoph Schuhmann, Romain Beaumont, Richard Vencu, Cade Gordon, Ross Wightman, Mehdi Cherti, Theo Coombes, Aarush Katta, Clayton Mullis, Mitchell Wortsman, Patrick Schramowski, Srivatsa Kundurthy, Katherine Crowson, Ludwig Schmidt, Robert Kaczmarczyk, Jenia Jitsev
Complexity 86: Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
Dani & Perry on SFI External Professor Sean Carrollâs MINDSCAPE Podcast
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Humans have an unusually long childhood â and an unusually long elderhood past the age of reproductive activity. Why do we spend so much time playing and exploring, caregiving and reflecting, learning and transmitting? What were the evolutionary circumstances that led to our unique life history among the primates? What use is the undisciplined child brain with its tendencies to drift, scatter, and explore in a world that adults understand in such very different terms? And what can we transpose from the study of human cognition as a developmental, stage- wise process to the refinement and application of machine learning technologies?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we talk to SFI External Professor Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Berkeley, author of numerous books on psych, cognitive science, childhood development. She writes a column at The Wall Street Journal, alternating with Robert Sapolsky. Slate said that Gopnik is âwhere to go if you want to get into the head of a baby.â In our conversation we discuss the tension between exploration and exploitation, the curious evolutionary origins of human cognition, the value of old age, and she provides a sober counterpoint about life in the age of large language machine learning models.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us at santafe.edu/engage.
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Alison Gopnik at Wikipedia
Alison Gopnikâs Google Scholar page
Explanation as Orgasm
by Alison GopnikTwitter thread for Gopnikâs latest SFI Seminar on machine learning and child development
Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood
by Gopnik et al.Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters
by Deena Weisberg & Alison GopnikChildhood as a solution to exploreâexploit tensions
by Alison GopnikThe Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines
by Kevin A Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Joshua B Tenenbaum, & Tomer UllmanWhat Does âMind-Wanderingâ Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation
by Zachary C. Irving, Aaron Glasser, Alison Gopnik, Verity Pinter, Chandra SripadaModels of Human Scientific Discovery
by Robert Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer UllmanLove Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children
by Alison Gopnik at APSOur Favorite New Things Are the Old Ones
by Alison Gopnik at The Wall Street JournalAn exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence
by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, & David Wolpert#DEVOBIAS2018 on SFI TwitterCoarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism
by Jessica FlackComplexity 90: Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Complexity 15: R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment
Learning through the grapevine and the impact of the breadth and depth of social networks
by Matthew Jackson, Suraj Malladi, & David McAdamsThe coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative
by Wendy Carlin & Sam BowlesComplexity 83: Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World
Complexity 97: Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on the forces slowing innovation at scale (citing Chu & Evans)
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What does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables call for different strategies in individual and collective cognition â what defines the threshold at which so-called âsolidâ brains transition into âliquidsâ? And how might we apply these and related lessons from ecology and evolution to help steward a diverse and thriving future with technology, and keep the biosphere afloat?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week on the show we talk to SFI External Professor Ricard SolĂŠ of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Website, Twitter, Google Scholar) about liquid and solid brains, the scaling of cognition, criticality, contagions, and terraforming our own planet with synthetic bio.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for Undergraduate Complexity Research, our new SFI Press book Ex Machina by John H. Miller, and an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics â at santafe.edu/engage.
Lastly, join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas, a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more. Space is limited! Apps close February 1st. Learn more on our website.
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Liquid and Solid Brains: Mapping the Cognition Space
SFI Seminar by Ricard SolĂŠJohn Hopfield (re: biology as computation)
Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis
by Ricard SolĂŠComplexity 93 - Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
by Chris Kempes and David KrakauerSimon Conway Morris (re: macroevolutionary trends)
Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution
by Jaewon Shin et al.Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
by Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta MagazineComplexity 90 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Will Ratcliff (re: yeasts and emergent multi-cellularity)
Complexity 29 - On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
Synthetic criticality in cellular brains
by Ricard SolĂŠ et al.Tom Ray (re: artificial life)
Complexity and fragility in ecological networks
by Ricard SolĂŠ and JosĂŠ MontoyaEcological Networks and Their Fragility
by JosĂŠ Montoya, Stuart Pimm, and Ricard SolĂŠThe small world of human language
by Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard SolĂŠMacroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement
by Laurent HĂŠbert-Dufresne, Sam Scarpino, and Jean-Gabriel YoungComplexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
Complexity 66 - Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry
Chris Langton (re: criticality)
Jim Crutchfield (re: the edge of chaos)
Per Bak (re: self-organized criticality)
Complexity 10 - Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation
Complexity 3 - Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales
Niles Eldredge (re: punctuated equilibria)
Terraforming the biosphere: can bioengineering save us?
SFI Seminar by Ricard SolĂŠEcological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years
by Ricard SolĂŠ and Simon LevinEcological firewalls for synthetic biology
by Blai Vidiella and Ricard SolĂŠRachel Armstrong (re: synthetic biology for CO2 fixing in concrete)
Stewardship of global collective behavior
by Joseph Bak-Coleman et al.Complexity 64 - Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White
Complexity 5 - Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology
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In his foundational 1972 paper âMore Is Different,â physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to their smallest components does not allow researchers to predict the behaviors of those systems upon reconstruction. Another way of putting this is that different disciplines reveal different truths at different scales. Contrary to long-held convictions that there would one day be one great unifying theory to explain it all, fundamental research in this century looks more like a bouquet of complementary approaches. This pluralistic thinking hearkens back to the work of 19th century psychologist William James and looks forward into the growing popularity of evidence-based approaches that cultivate diversity in team-building, governance, and ecological systems. Context-dependent theory and practice calls for choirs of voicesâŚso how do we encourage this? New systems must emerge to handle the complexity of digital societyâŚwhat might they look like?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFIâs Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor Cristopher Moore (author of over 150 papers at the intersection of physics and computer science). In our conversation we discuss the case for a radically pluralistic approach, explore the links between plurality and quantum mechanics, and outline potential technological solutions to the âsense-makingâ problems of the 21st century.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for Undergraduate Complexity Research, our new SFI Press book Ex Machina by John H. Miller, and an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics â at santafe.edu/engage.
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Why I Am A Pluralist
by Glen WeylReflecting on A Possible Quadratic Wormhole between Quantum Mechanics and Plurality
by Michael Freedman, Michal Fabinger, Glen WeylDecentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul
by Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik ButerinAI is an Ideology, Not a Technology
by Glen Weyl & Jaron LanierHow Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic
by Jaron Lanier & Glen WeylA Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods
by Vitalik Buterin, ZĂśe Hitzig, Glen WeylEquality of Power and Fair Public Decision-making
by Nicole Immorlica, Benjamin Plautt, Glen WeylScale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution
by Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey & Timothy KohlerToward a Connected Society
by Danielle AllenThe role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spread
by Antoine Allard, Cris Moore, Samuel Scarpino, Benjamin Althouse, and Laurent HĂŠbert-DufresneThe Generalsâ Scuttlebutt: Byzantine-Resilient Gossip Protocols
by Sandro Coretti, Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore, Alexander RussellEffective Resistance for Pandemics: Mobility Network Sparsification for High-Fidelity Epidemic Simulation
by Alexander Mercier, Samuel Scarpino, and Cris MooreHow Accurate are Rebuttable Presumptions of Pretrial Dangerousness? A Natural Experiment from New Mexico
by Cris Moore, Elise Ferguson, Paul GuerinThe Uncertainty Principle: In an age of profound disagreements, mathematics shows us how to pursue truth together
by Cris Moore & John KaagOn Becoming Aware: A pragmatics of experiencing
by Nathalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, and Pierre VermerschThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform The World
by David Deutsch[Twitter thread on chess]
by Vitalik ButerinLetter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King, Jr.The End of History and The Last Man
by Francis FukuyamaEnabling the Individual: Simmel, Dewey and âThe Need for a Philosophy of Educationâ
by H. KoenigEncyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti of The Holy Father Francis on Fraternity and Social Friendship
by Pope FrancisWhat can we know about that which we cannot even imagine?
by David WolpertJ.C.R. Licklider (1, 2)
Allison Duettman (re: existential hope)
Evan Miyazono (re: Protocol Labs research)
Intangible Capital (âan open access scientific journal that publishes theoretical or empirical peer-reviewed articles, which contribute to advance the understanding of phenomena related with all aspects of management and organizational behavior, approached from the perspectives of intellectual capital, strategic management, human resource management, applied psychology, education, IT, supply chain management, accountingâŚâ)
Polis (âa real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learningâ)
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69 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics
82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)
91 - Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
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What makes us human? Over the last several decades, the once-vast island of human exceptionalism has lost significant ground to wave upon wave of research revealing cognition, emotion, problem-solving, and tool-use in other organisms. But there remains a clear sense that humans stand apart â evidenced by our unique capacity to overrun the planet and remake it in our image. What is unique about the human mind, and how might we engage this question rigorously through the lens of neuroscience? How are our gifts of simulation and imagination different from those of other animals? And what, if anything, can we know of the âcuriosityâ of even larger systems in which weâre embedded â the social superorganisms, ecosystems, technospheres within which we exist like neurons in the brain?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we conclude a two-part conversation with SFI External Professor John Krakauer, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we talk about the nature of curiosity and learning, and whether the difference between the cognitive capacities and inner lifeworld of humans and other animals constitutes a matter of degree or one of kindâŚ
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com . If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage. Please also note that we are now accepting applications for an open postdoc fellowship, next summerâs undergraduate research program, and the next cohort of Complexity Explorerâs course in the digital humanities. We welcome your submissions!
Lastly, for more from John Krakauer, check out our new six-minute time-lapse of notes from the 2022 InterPlanetary Festival panel discussions on intelligence and the limits to human performance in spaceâŚ
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Prospective Learning: Back to the Future
by The Future Learning Collective (Joshua Vogelstein, et al.)The Learning Salon: Toward a new participatory science
by Ida Momennejad, John Krakauer, Claire Sun, Eva Yezerets, Kanaka Rajan, Joshua Vogelstein, Brad WybleArtificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
by Melanie Mitchell at The New York TimesEconomic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
by John Maynard KeynesThe Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon
by Jude Isabella at Nautilus MagazineThe maintenance of vocal learning by gene-culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis
by R. F. Lachlan and P. J. B. SlaterMindscape Podcast 87 - Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
by Sean CarrollThe Apportionment of Human Diversity
by Richard LewontinFrom Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
by Simon Conway MorrisI Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas HoftstadterCoarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism
by Jessica FlackDaniel Dennett
Susan Blackmore
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The brain is arguably one of the most complex objects known to science. How best to understand it? That is a trick question: brains are organized at many levels and attempts to grasp them all through one approach â be it micro, macro, anatomical, behavioral â are destined to leave out crucial insights. What more, thinking âverticallyâ across scales, one might miss important angles from another discipline along the âhorizontalâ axis. For inquiries too big to sit within one field of knowledge, maybe it is time we resurrected the salon: a mode of scientific exploration that levels hierarchies of expertise and optimizes for more complementary and high-dimensional, egalitarian, communal discourse. As with the Jainist philosophic principle anekantavada â how many blind people does it take to grok an elephant? â neuroscience is perhaps best practiced as innately and intensely multiperspectivalâŚ
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week is part one of a two-part conversation with SFI External Professor John Krakauer, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins . In this episode, we talk about the history of different ways of studying the brain â in animals and humans â and how subjects as complex as brains invite a different way of seeing, one that synthesizes many different ways of seeingâŚ
Thanks for your patience with the recent delays in publication â with InterPlanetary Festival and our Annual Symposium behind us, Complexity will now return to regular biweekly scheduling.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com, and stay tuned for part two â in which we talk about how learning is inherently a future-focused exercise, and what that means for education. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us, including an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics â at santafe.edu/engage.
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Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias
John Krakauer, Asif Ghazanfar, Alex Gomez-Marin, Malcolm MacIver, David PoeppelTwo Views of the Cognitive Brain
David Barack & John KrakauerOn Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Richard DoyleSimon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
Complexity Podcast Episode 72Former SFI Fellow David Kinney, epistemologist (re: disciplines as levels of explanatory granularity)
Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism
Jessica FlackIntegral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World
Sean EsbjĂśrn-Hargens & Michael ZimmermanCarl Cranor, moral philosopher (re: causation)
The Learning Salon: Toward a new participatory science
Ida Momennejad, John Krakauer, Claire Sun, Eva Yezerets, Kanaka Rajan, Joshua Vogelstein, Brad WybleBrain Inspired Podcast
Paul MiddlebrookseLife Journal
biorXiv
W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
Complexity Podcast Episode 68W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics
Complexity Podcast Episode 69Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
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Communication is a physical process. Itâs common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes workâŚbut how much work? The question of the relationship between energy, information, and matter is one of the deepest known to science. There appear to be limits to the rate at which communication between two systems can happenâŚbut the search for a fundamental relationship between speed, error, and energy (among other things) promises insights far deeper than merely whether we can keep making faster internet devices. Strap in (and consider slowing down) for a broad and deep discussion on the bounds within which our entire universe must playâŚ
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we speak with SFI Professor David Wolpert and MIT Physics PhD student Farita Tasnim, who have worked together over the last year on pioneering research into the nonlinear dynamics of communication channels. In this episode, we explore the history and ongoing evolution of information theory and coding theory, what the field of stochastic thermodynamics has to do with limits to human knowledge, and the role of noise in collective intelligence.
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us, including a handful of open postdoctoral fellowships â at santafe.edu/engage.
Lastly, this weekend â October 22nd & 23rd â is the return of our InterPlanetary Festival! Join our YouTube livestream for two full days of panel discussions, keynotes, and bleeding edge multimedia performances focusing space exploration through the lens of complex systems science. The fun begins at 11 A.M. Mountain Time on Saturday and ends 6 P.M. Mountain Time on Sunday. Everything will be recorded and archived at the stream link in case you canât tune in for the live event. Learn more at interplanetaryfest.orgâŚ
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Nonlinear thermodynamics of communication channels
by Farita Tasnim and David Wolpert (forthcoming at arXiv.org)Heterogeneity and Efficiency in the Brain
by Vijay BalasubramanianNoisy Deductive Reasoning: How Humans Construct Math, and How Math Constructs Universes
by David Wolpert & David KinneyStochastic Mathematical Systems
by David Wolpert & David KinneyTwenty-five years of nanoscale thermodynamics
by Chase P. Broedersz & Pierre RoncerayTen Questions about The Hard Limits of Human Intelligence
by David WolpertWhat can we know about that which we cannot even imagine?
by David WolpertCommunication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex, but both costs are needed to predict synapse number
by William Levy & Victoria CalvertAn exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence
by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, David WolpertWhen Slower Is Faster
by Carlos Gershenson & Dirk Helbing
Additional Resources:The stochastic thermodynamics of computation
by David WolpertElements of Information Theory, Second Edition (textbook)
by Thomas Cover & Joy ThomasComputational Complexity: A Modern Approach (textbook)
by Sanjeev Arora & Boaz BarakAn Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (textbook)
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What does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no closer. The more we learn, the more mysterious it all becomes. What if weâre asking the wrong questions? Maybe life did not begin at all, but rather coalesced piecemeal, a set of properties contingent and convergent, plural, more than once? Maybe the origin of life is happening right now, just over the horizon, forming something new anew. Letâs get into the weeds and see if we can find a continuity between biology and physics.
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week we speak with Kate Adamala, synthetic biologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, about her research to produce synthetic minimal cells that are not technically alive but can perform myriad biological processes. Along the way the distant past and future meet. Can we build life? Or can we grow machines?
Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
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Nonenzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis Inside Model Protocells
Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells
Competition between model protocells driven by an encapsulated catalyst
Synthetic cells in biomedical applications
Parasites, infections and inoculation in synthetic minimal cells
Build-a-Cell: Engineering a Synthetic Cell Community
The Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life: Monolith Monologues
Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
Scott Page
Mind Children by Hans Moravec
The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
Michael Lachmann
Terraforming the Biosphere by Ricard SolĂŠ
Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
Red Queen
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One way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena â a teasing-out of music from the noise of history and nature. This effort follows centuries of work to find the rules that structure language, music, and society. How strictly analogous are the patterns governing a symphony and those that describe a social transformation? Math and music are old friends, but new statistical and computational techniques afford the possibility of going even deeper. What fundamental insights â and what sounds â emerge by bringing physicists, composers, social scientists, data artists, and biologists together?
Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Iâm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week weâll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.
This week on Complexity, we sit with two of SFIâs External Professors â Miguel Fuentes at the Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis and the Institute of Complex Systems of Valparaiso, and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli at the University of North Texas â for a discussion that roams from their working group on the complexity of music, to fundamental questions about the nature of emergence, to how we might bring all of these ideas together to think about social transformation as a kind of music in its own right.
A show that spend so much time exploring sense and nonsense would hardly be complete without technical errors, so please accept our apologies for losing some of Miguelâs backstory to a recording glitch. For this reason, be extra sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com.
Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation â or finding other ways to engage with us â at santafe.edu/engage.
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An âintegrated mess of music lovers in scienceâ
on the 2020 Music & Complexity SFI Working Group
(with YouTube playlist of talks)Expanding our understanding of musical complexity
on the 2022 Music & Complexity SFI Working GroupTopology of Networks in Generalized Musical Spaces
by Marco Buongiorno NardelliTonal harmony and the topology of dynamical score networks
by Marco Buongiorno Nardellia computer-aided data-driven composition environment for the sonification and dramatization of scientific data streams
by Marco Buongiorno NardelliMachines that listen: towards a machine listening model based on perceptual descriptors
by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Mitsuko Aramaki, Sølvi Ystad, and Richard Kronland-MartinetDoes network complexity help organize Babelâs library?
by Juan Pablo CĂĄrdenas IvĂĄn GonzĂĄlez, Gerardo Vidal, and Miguel FuentesComplexity and the Emergence of Physical Properties
by Miguel FuentesThe Structure of Online Information Behind Social Crises
by Juan Pablo CĂĄrdenas, GastĂłn Olivares, Gerardo Vidal, Carolina Urbina and Miguel Fuentes88 - Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
Complexity Podcast86 - Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
Complexity Podcast81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Complexity Podcast67 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
Complexity Podcast36 - Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)
Complexity Podcast27 - COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
Complexity PodcastIgnorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science
by Stuart Firestein (SFI Community Lecture)SFIâs Operating Principles
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