Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some […]
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In the question to understand the biology of life, we are (so far) limited to what happened here on Earth.
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It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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Welcome to the September 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
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How human beings behave is, for fairly evident reasons, a topic of intense interest to human beings. And yet, not
164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality Read More
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology Read More
There is no general theory of problem-solving, or even a reliable set of principles that will usually work. It’s therefore
162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change Read More
Economies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative
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Plato and Aristotle founded much of what we think of as Western philosophy during the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.
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