Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are […]
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Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of higher-level emergent properties helps render the
295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality Read More
Welcome to the November 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it “goes on doing something… for a much longer
294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life Read More
A large economy is one of the best examples we have of complex dynamics. There are multiple components arranged in
293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity Read More
It’s not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start
292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience Read More
Welcome to the October 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it. That
291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging Read More
It’s a wonder democracy works at all — a collection of people with potentially different interests have to agree to
290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work Read More
As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson
289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments Read More