Guests:  __ __ Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Additional sound credits: Digifish music; “Determination of Azimuth,” written by Heather Graham, staged at the Baltimore Rock Opera Society Follow us on: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sfiscience.bsky.social More info: Apply for the 2024 Complexity Global School at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia https://www.santafe.edu/info/2024-complexity-global-school/overview SFI programs: Education https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/overview __ __ Videos: __ __ Papers & Articles: __ __

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Apr 10

Guests:  __ __ Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Additional sound credits: Digifishmusic, Trundlefly, Greenvwbeetle, Miksmusic, Brewlabboffin Follow us on: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sfiscience.bsky.social More info: SFI programs: Education https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/overview Complexity Explorer:  __ __ Books:  __ __ Talks:  __ __ Papers & Articles: __ __

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Mar 27

Guests:  __ __ Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Follow us on: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sfiscience.bsky.social More info: SFI programs: Education https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/overview Complexity Explorer:  Fractals and Scaling  https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/187-fractals-and-scaling Fractals and Scaling: Toward a Theory of Urban Scaling https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=theory+of+urban+scaling+complexity+explorer Introduction to Complexity: Ant Foraging and Task Allocation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbAaJEDHY3U __ __ Talks:  __ __ Papers & Articles: __ __

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Mar 13

Guests:  __ __ Hosts: 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 Follow us on: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sfiscience.bsky.social More info: SFI programs: Education https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/overview Complexity Explorer: Origins of Life: Astrobiology & General Theories for Life - Scaling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRXcj0ON_tE with Pablo Marquet Books:  __ __ Talks:  __ __ Papers & Articles: __ __

29m

Feb 28

Guests:  __ __ Hosts: 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 http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky SFI programs:  __ __ Books & Films:  __ __ Talks:  __ __ Papers & Articles: __ __

33m

Feb 14

Guests:  __ __ Hosts: 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 http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/  • Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sfiscience.bsky.social SFI programs:  __ __ Books & Stories:  __ __ Talks:  __ __ Papers:  __ __

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Jan 31

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. Follow SFI on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ 📚READING & VIDEOS: by Michael Crichton by Michael Crichton The Evolution of Syntactic Communication https://www.nature.com/articles/35006635 by Martin Nowak, Joshua Plotkin, and Vincent Jansen InterPlanetary Festival 2018 + SFI Science Explainer Animations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1zL6-We3SE&list=PLcC2ShU7TrqdA2rBhFHpQ0QKimv0d_TsA by SFI https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfipress.org%2Fbooks%2Fcomplexity-economics&c=E,1,tG9ze7N1SoCNTABoMPXc5ZuYHCl9kW6K18vqjFxVBwKq7I4Sp6dKn9sABPdnNEm0awTMLvlzRObFUvYalfwJFhBEZZpFyXmcFe3X8vBOTQprLv0,&typo=1 by SFI Press Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2S7dqS0Xg by Simon DeDeo (2019 SFI Seminar) How To Live in The Future, Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelgarfield.medium.com%2Fhow-to-live-in-the-future-part-4-the-future-is-exapted-remixed-35ea5ca9d877&c=E,1,E4by4VxCUiCq7T2ElRKtHZQMx45rfFRoOIMm6SYh88plmpYfLgiL9091dPO8jF_N3gxutcmGE9u8k7xT-mcklyP2POzy7kM4q5C84lr5VggfEYNyBGdf1jLVJg,,&typo=1 by Michael Garfield Artists Misusing Technology https://twitter.com/NxtMuseum/status/1646168042332737536 by NXT Museum The Collapse of Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBvSVYotVc by Melanie Mitchell (2019 SFI Symposium Talk) The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13966 by Melanie Mitchell & David Krakauer Welcome To Jurassic Park https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/welcome-to-jurassic-park/ by Tink Zorg (re: COVID-19 and the collapse of supply chains) Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantamagazine.org%2Fsmarter-parts-make-collective-systems-too-stubborn-20190226%2F&c=E,1,PWpAi2UHz0lr9FG6xU6n9E4dy350MAHIyo4gjsWCxLCOaJIz5ojGF-63-8N5omWeEoWjncdVvVcj0O2lP1DCPGI-mWrBb8EVJ2Qvd8SHb_Y74Z9DvaonCvo,&typo=1 by Jordana Cepelewicz at  (re: Albert Kao) Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Froyalsocietypublishing.org%2Fdoi%2F10.1098%2Frsta.2016.0338&c=E,1,eHRCOtra8J82yhFX3IRvUDbDGWlzxrmXkTgqFrTfJAW_zcCnZMXZkKHzNzyXv0QLZ0pJxlHD9pG_7sKG7H7IWXesm4q-JxIJYcbchq1l_EOgvn9i8dyt180c&typo=1 by Jessica Flack Argument Making In The Wild https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1551999043873542144?lang=en by Simon DeDeo (SFI Seminar re: egregores) The Collective Computation of Reality in Nature and Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYLLyfs1Ts by Jessica Flack (SFI Community Lecture re: “hourglass emergence”) Interaction-based evolution: how natural selection and nonrandom mutation work together https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC4231362%2F&c=E,1,7h5OMmjKcA-NSSrtFepZSoAel4pZrVkT-c-bzBbGyiFa9YulI9dS6p_5JDUI2AmKXfyOUzlSwuWSuPpwk2KCHwua5a4ExgTy0YKsMiin8xgS&typo=1 by Adi Livnat In The Country of The Blind (_Afterword: An Introduction to Cliology) https://archive.org/details/incountryofblind00flyn/page/n11/mode/2up by Michael Flynn An exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221078593 by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, David Wolpert Murray Gell-Mann - Information overload. A crude look at the whole (180/200) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGjsWiA_mM (re: the challenges of funding truly innovative research) The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artlink.com.au%2Farticles%2F2522%2Fthe-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-biocybernetic-reprod%2F&c=E,1,Of9k8rZrmvritEqvYNcb3i8EXUUS7ih3sseaKTeFhrybQ3QPlmtXKnDJ-ODRCMU2WYQOvyji0_LaE-UgN53Kf_CvPT8PAPOuc8EL28ryeB8IfdE1_PsYzUmfBnc,&typo=1 by W.J.T. Mitchell Ken Wilber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber Intelligence as a planetary scale process https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5 by Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, and Sara Walker Light & Magic https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/light-and-magic (documentary series) on Disney+ Palantir Analytics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies by J.R.R. Tolkien https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F91720717%3Fembedded%3Dtrue%26source%3Dvimeo_logo%26owner%3D12344095&c=E,1,ENmyQLcjYfRkgEvU3Gh8K6zFI-nOK4jhfRM2W0-VIs4vzHJGEFYSoBaYx_prq7XtayKceGFn1GUK1z5rkp2McZpY6E7fD7SgqFIpt6fihn231OTa3A,,&typo=1 by Douglas Rushkoff Michael Levin https://twitter.com/drmichaellevin/status/936758379267133441?lang=ar Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F22624308%2F&c=E,1,0gZPokuKZXx1JbzycXTVOJiABDEw8glpdIbPMnhqnb1J1Wm36aQe3CJ-JPelrDL-FXPc47ZZLBeEADBJrLBt8B6b0Q_tLjpaaSI5czhIjzZI-f4o&typo=1 by Vasilis Dakos, Egbert H van Nes, Paolo D’Odorico, Marten Scheffer The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3A%2F%2Fbactra.org%2Fweblog%2F699.html&c=E,1,08e99tQvK1idB2rj0G2XAWhBazUmO7lK2nh2Qm0ItWTgolitFkI8UgM7EQa-C9ifgGkgU_vnZ4sgNc8lvcppKzc6mJ1U0FpawPxayjrIbbk,&typo=1 by Cosma Shalizi 🎧PODCASTS:   Complexity Podcast 001 - David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F1&c=E,1,blWrxPaaebe6UroX5TGqix7yIsxlod2vOrOHotEVri25QtKOVgkPvVNK-mREJbWSzPBWvCcsnEslztrw5IZTuzd6_iKwFg1UlSXd_SDTjOwkftPmFw,,&typo=1 009 - Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F9&c=E,1,od5tyxJYSYLg0Qag_aDTiJLmysr-WxL2K-0FLk0_JfPXSdI41vY2Hi8B6FPFFMG88FmFz_dDjlhEB59-xk6a_V_AH5Gxjkq93yPPhR9tBSOVLP8ROFvIckY,&typo=1 012 - Matthew Jackson on Social and Economic Networks https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F12&c=E,1,v5L4j0SAYod_GpuicFZ_AH_-9JfHcnnNx0mb425pBL25PvXXPon4aHRszKLlC775xtfjDbaQqTYCcDQH_-Ht0ThKPgZ5XS37fr1cIW2emcAq_bCLaWKSeg,,&typo=1 013 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F13&c=E,1,zLv5pNImtAQE5jaciZkXPVNWkDD-sWF-BDYFwQz7HCMG5jjG6VQjzwVz8wQZ7gWdJVen6omrMsTqCYavAMQR1B24As9uCCLhlVfYqp3gL3CmXKA,&typo=1 016 - Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F16&c=E,1,PQ137xPb_vd4HtS6_0AJQHWOiS5uhzvAAUxIOJuBq-2MTgMwZnfzkZHuPWaffP0j83MlHXOjbOoPRB_pav-mFWObr5_SM3mXyyqbxu8vgJFr1g,,&typo=1 036 - Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F36&c=E,1,VXsrt62uHsx0jK5qo151CWcrHISmt3r_2pJi4dvXkzphyvye6x-j8efrLfp8gi4Vfkingv5Jh8rVZJO2galCZ8lws3ouOOM-N3zMeCfpzD8,&typo=1 056 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F56&c=E,1,5vf5aCNqA2ECZb0FhKVI22LDoXQQ2BOKRRr-wIT47UmACb5i-lQL0QUOnbQo4mxrSuxUefSjyJrKxTaUlGQ2oGatisBWuvCrnT5nXdLvYHY8ugzQEYOBAbNalg,,&typo=1 060 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt’s Naturegemälde https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F60&c=E,1,k1iYyuQwZbFRlfLL3Ws9dRvRm-6UVK2FLf1lu2dsezAm4RyAcuQtycS_rCqSjaY9kmEVk93C-Y7l7xB8ZJwuPHcPfrMtNX0COhX7iwNW&typo=1 065 - Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F65&c=E,1,F47Jk4UUBaY52fIF5X25UuTOVyB5b92bW7eU-VMX7DQnOPHGHvBT9GCd7RNf4fxLxJlZi5gFJeevjUZ26TmnwxstlOCKMhEtKhbX5dNsmFmh-6sNWg,,&typo=1 067 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F67&c=E,1,gb-Cj4B7r1X7xAQuPg478M-Xlcwuua9lBd6TNqvUODwWKOXzhNRt2s4xcQHTFszbYPDSWLC9I0oqXb8yYOlyMDeEH9FPMJDH0b-4bHyqwFPK&typo=1 072 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F72&c=E,1,VgpKOSLUL6B10RInHmEk21vVXUPo_4P3DxG3eq17XWMwoBTl5_CX3-a46WA4jK63XkqVz03pmmuxEpx2agUWKUkhmg90tJxonjTVVFOF&typo=1 087 - Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F87&c=E,1,L2CuSAKEOwu63zM8xWPTNFMmQUO52LB9QPTOoRdiD8WDL6YAMZ7xdnUJcVT0SEKcMilTipfLDn794o4zRrbUW1Fq9iGL1jyJ5WgD5aNDewrXuGTrqI1fE90,&typo=1 090 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F90&c=E,1,pP-O4AfANvKBNxQpVYvluYICQJCRVbmXsEslbt7QXnyllrEIgvFtpFviw1K_mkwflCXXTa1qnfWhYHsqezoqJjOX5fNY_ctAPTJHaY9iZBmcDQ_pCmIM&typo=1 92 - Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F92&c=E,1,e6pDlxCBrdUr8Ym2yfB0dTnmHCYI_HNIBGC-kZjnZRvrwArGjLcLym1R_IIJ9kL9j1Evzr-cjBeqxZ6jxiMCt-nv1ldSYCfxuiBun0ALpzXW&typo=1 099 - Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fcomplexity.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F99&c=E,1,jBi-JaqfV8FnxjUldCmvGyFyudK2bRs2NjkN_cCTDj7djliVVu8HYmG2S0yHoo9u2bHzb2xpSNwOOJwlNaG339mQ9yJ5zEpMNMNRBpWr&typo=1   Future Fossils Podcast 194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelgarfield.substack.com%2Fp%2F194%23details&c=E,1,Y3lZSKRyhSCan4Ej1a0ZOdgPcNh-VytHb5gmVLhu7YrTHwLNk_kRlhpuF2XtuVEIxD8V5etFucfrHhPDTr2cSxxN7WRMKrRSCWa5Z176&typo=1 190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelgarfield.substack.com%2Fp%2F190%23details&c=E,1,N4eTNlBVzGFIqqLGj6pPYvsg5E9Z2qtVlZ0jmgIeMnHp66r9zSrz2ATw9uv8USD6HGJkeHxLI9eltUiJqapMjOsEwaxG1wISsLwv9QbDFj_M5EmiVpU3ag,,&typo=1 165 - Kevin Kelly on Time, Memory, Change, and Vanishing Asia https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelgarfield.substack.com%2Fp%2F165%23details&c=E,1,KTTUJBQht7lwj3KwLylL95TqY9ZSXAl_qGlcZdBZW8x72U0zcYa2nDOOVJp3ztkqg-BADzZyLMRKP9MJ6B32gUrt40kBNK22URnjUHEc6xs,&typo=1 125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelgarfield.substack.com%2Fp%2F125%23details&c=E,1,AssEUEMiv6arHpcGXJ0wKsbVHH8QzYdOvO-hJRHLfi4o-YZfaFSxvhmdeC-aJXsoadF_afc4all_Cll8rGnln9uD-_Y-44KVhcFvDvtq1HFWGyD3HN4,&typo=1   Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/track/analog-fugitives-conquer-death Other music by Michael Garfield https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour-a-cyberacoustic-summer-daydream

1h 39m

Jun 30, 2023

One way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links — 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 order…what 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. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/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 https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/, Twitter https://twitter.com/masonporter?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hSyfNekAAAAJ&hl=en, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Porter), about his research on community detection in networks and the topology of data — 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 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/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 I’ll be doing next! It’s been an honor and a pleasure to bring complex systems science to you in this way, and hope we stay in touch. I won’t be hard to find https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield. Thank you for listening. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED & RELATED MEDIA: Bounded Confidence Models of Opinion Dynamics on Networks https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1552361571376062464 SFI Seminar by Mason Porter (live Twitter coverage & YouTube stream recording) Communities in Networks https://community.ams.org/journals/notices/200909/rtx090901082p.pdf?adat=October%202009&trk=0&cat=feature&galt=feature by Mason Porter, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, & Peter Mucha Social Structure of Facebook Networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.2166.pdf by Amanda Traud, Peter Mucha, & Mason Porter Critical Truths About Power Laws https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1216142 by Michael Stumpf & Mason Porter The topology of data https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/papers/pt.3.5157.pdf by Mason Porter, Michelle Feng, & Eleni Katifori Complex networks with complex weights https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.06257.pdf by Lucas Böttcher & Mason A. Porter A Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06825.pdf by Abigail Hicock, Yacoub Kureh, Heather Z. Brooks, Michelle Feng, & Mason Porter A multilayer network model of the coevolution of the spread of a disease and competing opinions https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0218202521500536 by Kaiyan Peng, Zheng Lu, Vanessa Lin, Michael Lindstrom, Christian Parkinson, Chuntian Wang, Andrea Bertozzi, & Mason Porter Social network analysis for social neuroscientists https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/16/8/883/5838123 Elisa C Baek, Mason A Porter, & Carolyn Parkinson Community structure in social and biological networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.122653799 by Michelle Girvan & Mark Newman The information theory of individuality https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32212028/#:~:text=The%20information%20theory%20of%20individuality%20allows%20for%20the%20identification%20of,through%20coarse%2Dgraining%20in%20adaptive by David Krakauer, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Jessica C Flack, Nihat Ay Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04996-4 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 Barberá, Monica Bhole & Nils Wernerfelt  Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0484 by Aaron Clauset, Cristopher Moore, M.E.J. Newman Gregory Bateson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson (Wikipedia) Complexity Ep. 99 - Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/99 “Why Do We Sleep?” https://aeon.co/essays/a-quantitative-theory-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-why-we-sleep by Van Savage & Geoffrey West at  Complexity Ep. 4 - Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities https://complexity.simplecast.com/4 Complexity Ep. 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12 Complexity Ep. 68 - W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68 Complexity Ep. 100 - Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/100  

1h 22m

Apr 05, 2023

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 one’s role within a transcendental order…but 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. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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, best-selling author of seven books and SFI MILLER SCHOLAR ANDREA WULF https://www.andreawulf.com/, about her latest lovingly-detailed long work, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609881/magnificent-rebels-by-andrea-wulf/ 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 isn’t, inspiring later British and American Romantic movements. Arguing for art and the imagination in the work of science and infusing art with reason, Jena’s 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 Romantics…maybe even how to replicate their great successes 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 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603, and/or consider making a donation at SANTAFE.EDU/PODCASTGIVE http://santafe.edu/podcastgive. You can find numerous other ways to engage with us at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE http://santafe.edu/engage — in particular, you may wish to celebrate ten years of free online courses at Complexity Explorer with SFI Professor Cris Moore’s Computation in Complex Systems https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/173-computation-in-complex-systems, starting March 28th. Learn more in the show notes…and thank you for listening! Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/   RELATED READING & LISTENING: Episode 60 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/60 Episode 61 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/61 https://www.andreawulf.com/about-the-invention-of-nature.html by Andrea Wulf https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609881/magnificent-rebels-by-andrea-wulf/ by Andrea Wulf Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374532796/commonasair by Lewis Hyde Episode 37 - The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/37 “Nature” (1844) https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/nature1844.html by Ralph Waldo Emerson Chopin’s Preludes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(Chopin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake by James Joyce InterPlanetary Voyager http://santafe.edu/voyager (Interactive Golden Record Liner Notes) by SFI’s InterPlanetary Festival Blue Planet https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/blue-planet (BBC) with David Attenborough

1h 6m

Mar 24, 2023

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. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gershenson, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fBRKCewAAAAJ&hl=en, Wikipedia https://twitter.com/cgershen?lang=en, Twitter https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/), SFI Sabbatical Visitor and professor of computer science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he leads the Self-organizing Systems Lab, among many other titles you can find in our show notes. For the next hour, we’ll 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 — a first for this podcast. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/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 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NB6XRM5 linked in the show notes. Or just a copy of the recently resurfaced SFI Press Archival Volume https://www.sfipress.org/news/complexity-entropy-and-the-physics-of-information. There’s still time to apply for the COMPLEXITY GAINS UK https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/apply-now-2023-complexity-gains-summer-school program for PhD students – apps close March 15th. Or come work for us https://santafe.edu/about/jobs! 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 https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED & RELATED LINKS: Carlos publishes the Complexity Digest Newsletter https://comdig.unam.mx/. His SFI Seminars to date: A Brief History of Balance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJ32AEymps Emergence, (Self)Organization, and Complexity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO597pPU1z4 Criticality: A Balance Between Robustness and Adaptability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDfeomkzRjg Festina lente (the slower-is-faster effect) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEnsPUfa7tw&t=1213s Antifragility: Dynamical Balance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfN5TyMyxLg W. Ross Ashby & The Law of Requisite Variety https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27150 https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects by Timothy Morton How can we think the complex? https://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0402023.pdf by Carlos Gershenson and Francis Heylighen The Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2827 by Carlos Gershenson Complexity and Philosophy https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604072 by Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenson Heterogeneity extends criticality https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06439 by Fernanda Sánchez-Puig, Octavio Zapata, Omar K, Pineda, Gerardo Iñiguez, and Carlos Gershenson When Can we Call a System Self-organizing? https://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0303020.pdf by Carlos Gershenson and Francis Heylighen Temporal, Structural, and Functional Heterogeneities Extend Criticality and Antifragility in Random Boolean Networks https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/254 by Amahury Jafet López-Díaz, Fernanda Sánchez-Puig, and Carlos Gershenson When slower is faster https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplx.21736 by Carlos Gershenson, Dirk Helbing Self-organization leads to supraoptimal performance in public transportation systems https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021469 by Carlos Gershenson Dynamics of ranking https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29256-x by Gerardo Iñiguez, Carlos Pineda, Carlos Gershenson, & Albert-László Barabási Self-Organizing Traffic Lights https://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0411066.pdf by Carlos Gershenson Dynamic competition and resource partitioning during the early life of two widespread, abundant and ecologically similar fishes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-020-04247-5 by A. D. Nunn, L. H. Vickers, K. Mazik, J. D. Bolland, G. Peirson, S. N. Axford, A. Henshaw & I. G. Cowx Towards a general theory of balance http://www.guided-self.org/uploads/2/1/7/6/21762362/gershenson_gso-2022.pdf by Carlos Gershenson A Calculus for Self-Reference http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/VarelaCSR.pdf by Francisco Varela On Some Mental Effects of The Earthquake https://fullreads.com/essay/on-some-mental-effects-of-the-earthquake/ by William James Self-Organization Leads to Supraoptimal Performance in Public Transportation Systems https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021469 by Carlos Gershenson Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/99 Complexity Ep. 99 Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/72 Complexity Ep. 72 David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/45 Complexity Ep. 45 https://longnow.org/store/clock-long-now-time-and-responsibility-stewart-brand/ by Stewart Brand Michael Lachmann https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-lachmann Stuart Kauffman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Kauffman Andreas Wagner https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/andreas-wagner Cosma Shalizi https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ Does Free Will Violate The Laws of Physics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rohgVwQ57uM Big Think interviews Sean Carroll

1h 6m

Mar 09, 2023

And now for something completely different!  Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival https://interplanetaryfest.org/ at SITE Santa Fe, celebrating the immensely long time horizon, deep scientific and philosophical questions, psychological challenges, and engineering problems involved in humankind’s Great Work to extend its understanding and presence into outer space. For our third edition, we turned our attention to visionary projects living generations likely will not live to see completed — interstellar travel, off-world cities, radical new ways of understanding spacetime — 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 does complex systems science pose and answer these most fundamental questions? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 week’s episode, we share the Complex Conceptions of Time panel from InterPlanetary Festival 2022, moderated by SFI President David Krakauer https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/david-krakauer and featuring an all-star trinity of panelists: science journalist James Gleick https://twitter.com/jamesgleick?lang=en, sci-fi author and SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/ted-chiang-joins-sfi-miller-scholars, and physicist and SFI Professor David Wolpert https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/david-wolpert. In this hour, we play with and dissect some favorite metaphors for time, unroll the history of time’s 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com — as well as the extensive, interactive web-based “Voyager Golden Record Liner Notes https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1626655995169542176” 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 more… If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. If you’d 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 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NB6XRM5. Thanks for your time! Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-short-course-symposium-explore-first-principles-collective-intelligence%E2%80%A6: 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 http://santafe.edu/gwcss. OR the COMPLEXITY GAINS UK https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/apply-now-2023-complexity-gains-summer-school program for PhD students. (OR check OUR OPEN LISTINGS https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/ for a staff or research job!) JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ (SOME) MENTIONED & RELATED LINKS: DAVID KRAKAUER Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0748-5 by Nicolas Gisin Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clues-come-from-a-century-old-approach-to-math-20200407/ by Natalie Wolchover The Principle of Least Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary-action_principle Path Integral Formulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation Closed Timelike Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machineby H. G. Wells Kip Thorne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne JAMES GLEICK https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/60762/genius-by-james-gleick/ https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173177/the-physicist-and-the-philosopher by Jimena Canales TED CHIANG “Story of Your Life” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life Arrival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation:_Stories Russian Doll (TV series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Doll_(TV_series) https://images.shulcloud.com/1202/uploads/Documents/TheMerchantandtheAlchemistsGate.pdf DAVID WOLPERT Complexity 94 - David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/94 Complexity 45 - David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/45 by Mark Twain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court Intuitionist Mathematics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/

1h 0m

Feb 24, 2023

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 doesn’t 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. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 https://smaldino.com/wp/ at UC Merced and University of Utah Professor of Philosophy  C. Thi Nguyen https://objectionable.net/. In this episode we talk about   value capture and legibility, viewpoint diversity, issues that plague big governments, and expert identification problems…and map the challenges “ahead of us” as SFI continues as the hub of a five-year international research collaboration into emergent political economies https://www.santafe.edu/research/themes/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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. If you’d 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 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NB6XRM5. Thanks for your time! Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-short-course-symposium-explore-first-principles-collective-intelligence%E2%80%A6: 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 http://santafe.edu/gwcss. OR the COMPLEX ITY GAINS UK https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/apply-now-2023-complexity-gains-summer-school program for PhD students. (OR check OUR OPEN LISTINGS https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/ for a staff or research job!) JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED & RELATED LINKS: Transparency Is Surveillance https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=NGUTIS&aid=NGUTISv1 by C. Thi Nguyen The Seductions of Clarity https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUTSO-2.pdf by C. Thi Nguyen The Natural Selection of Bad Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.160384 by Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath Maintaining transient diversity is a general principle for improving collective problem solving https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ykrv5/ by Paul Smaldino, Cody Moser, Alejandro Pérez Velilla, Mikkel Werling The Division of Cognitive Labor https://joelvelasco.net/teaching/120/kitcher90-divisioncognitive.pdf by Philip Kitcher The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in The Natural Sciences https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf by Eugene Wigner On Crashing The Barrier of Meaning in A.I. https://melaniemitchell.me/PapersContent/AIMagazine2020.pdf by Melanie Mitchell Seeing Like A State https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state by James C. Scott Jim Rutt https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/jim-rutt Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2021636118#:~:text=These%20findings%20suggest%20that%20the,more%20fertile%20areas%20of%20study. by Johan Chu and James Evans The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/coming-battle-covid-19-narrative by Wendy Carlin and Samuel Bowles Peter Turchin https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/seshat-in-santa-fe/ In The Country of The Blind https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind by Michael Flynn 82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82 83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/83 84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/84 91 - Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/91 97 - Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/97

1h 12m

Feb 09, 2023

This is a podcast by and for the curious — 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 https://live-sas-physics.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/danielle-bassett, physicist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and her birth twin Perry Zurn https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/pzurn.cfm, philosopher at American University in Washington, DC. You might consider each one of two lenses in a stereoscopic inquiry. Their new MIT Press book https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547147/curious-minds/ bridges quantity and quality to recast curiosity as a phenomenon of networks — as a kind of “edgework” (generative, drawing new associations) instead of “acquistion” (of individuals collecting facts). The brain, after all, is made of networked neurons, and society’s a kind of super-brain of networked people, so why not think in terms of links?  Their research offers a taxonomy of of curiosity — 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-short-course-symposium-explore-first-principles-collective-intelligence%E2%80%A6: 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 http://santafe.edu/csss. OR the GRADUATE WORKSHOP ON COMPLEXITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE http://santafe.edu/gwcss. OR the COMPLEXITY GAINS UK https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/apply-now-2023-complexity-gains-summer-school program for PhD students. (OR check our open listings https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/ for a staff or research job!) Thank you for listening… JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED & RELATED LINKS: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547147/curious-minds/ by Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett (MIT Press, 2022) Curiosity as filling, compressing, and reconfiguring knowledge networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01182 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 ) [Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGjsWiA_mM by SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314334/arrival-of-the-fittest-by-andreas-wagner/ Complexity 99: Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/99 Complexity 80: Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/80 Busybody, Hunter, Dancer: Three Historical Models of Curiosity https://philpapers.org/rec/ZURBHD by Perry Zurn Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00985-7 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 https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29 by Andrew P. Smith https://books.google.com/books?id=QxKPRecn59gC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false Complexity 68: W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68 Complexity 90: Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/90 Complexity 94: David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/94 Complexity 35: Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/35 Complexity 87: Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/87 The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0658-y by Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara & Danielle S. Bassett by Cleo Wölfle Hazard https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749754/underflows/ by Karen Bakker https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691206288/the-sounds-of-life by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass Dirk Brockmann’s interactive explorables https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ Nicky Case’s interactive explorables https://ncase.me/ The Thing From The Future (speculative futurism card game by Stuart Candy & Jeff Watson at Situation Lab) https://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/ Bayo Akomolafe (re: networks, the nonhuman turn, and questioning the rhetoric of individuals as “designers”) https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/ LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08402 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 https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/86 Dani & Perry on SFI External Professor Sean Carroll’s MINDSCAPE Podcast https://art19.com/shows/sean-carrolls-mindscape/episodes/e52af8f6-2a43-4d75-b65b-290cfc7ebef7

1h 20m

Jan 25, 2023

Humans have an unusually long childhood — 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, stagewise process to the refinement and application of machine learning technologies? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 “where to go if you want to get into the head of a baby.” 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Lastly, we have a bevy of summer programs coming up! Join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-short-course-symposium-explore-first-principles-collective-intelligence%E2%80%A6: 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 http://santafe.edu/csss. OR the Graduate Workshop on Complexity in Social Science http://santafe.edu/gwcss. OR the Undergraduate Complexity Research program http://santafe.edu/ucr, for which apps close tonight! OR the free online Foundations and Applications in Humanities Analytics http://faha.complexityexplorer.org course with Complexity Explorer, which starts next week. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED & RELATED LINKS: Alison Gopnik at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Gopnik Alison Gopnik’s Google Scholar page https://0-scholar-google-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/citations?user=2tt6ZJ0AAAAJ&hl=fi Explanation as Orgasm https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1008290415597.pdf?pdf=button by Alison Gopnik Twitter thread for Gopnik’s latest SFI Seminar on machine learning and child development https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1569394334683860995 Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1700811114 by Gopnik et al. Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12069 by Deena Weisberg & Alison Gopnik Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0502 by Alison Gopnik The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines https://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci20/papers/0003/0003.pdf by Kevin A Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Joshua B Tenenbaum, & Tomer Ullman What Does “Mind-Wandering” Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12908 by Zachary C. Irving, Aaron Glasser, Alison Gopnik, Verity Pinter, Chandra Sripada Models of Human Scientific Discovery https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2018/papers/0015/0015.pdf by Robert Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer Ullman Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/love-lets-us-learn by Alison Gopnik at APS Our Favorite New Things Are the Old Ones https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-favorite-new-things-are-the-old-ones-11664476572 by Alison Gopnik at The Wall Street Journal An exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221078593 by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, & David Wolpert#DEVOBIAS2018 on SFI Twitter https://twitter.com/search?q=%23devobias2018&src=typed_query Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338 by Jessica Flack Complexity 90: Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/90 Complexity 15: R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/15 Learning through the grapevine and the impact of the breadth and depth of social networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2205549119 by Matthew Jackson, Suraj Malladi, & David McAdams The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/coming-battle-covid-19-narrative by Wendy Carlin & Sam Bowles Complexity 83: Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/83 Complexity 97: Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/97 Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on the forces slowing innovation at scale https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/academia-research-scientific-papers-progress/672694/ (citing Chu & Evans)

1h 8m

Jan 11, 2023

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 — what defines the threshold at which so-called “solid” brains transition into “liquids”? 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. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 Solé of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Website http://complex.upf.es/~ricard/Main/RicardSole.html, Twitter https://twitter.com/ricard_sole/status/1597310872183255040?t=0YXALF3i2CRIasmf3I4vUQ&s=03, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BqIjjUAAAAAJ&hl=en) 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for UNDERGRADUATE COMPLEXITY RESEARCH https://santafe.edu/ucr, our new SFI Press book  BY JOHN H. MILLER https://www.sfipress.org/books/ex-machina, and an open POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BELIEF DYNAMICS https://santafe.edu/about/jobs — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Lastly, join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-short-course-symposium-explore-first-principles-collective-intelligence%E2%80%A6: 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 https://santafe.edu. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED & RELATED WORKS Liquid and Solid Brains: Mapping the Cognition Space https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1597680107946414080 SFI Seminar by Ricard Solé John Hopfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopfield (re: biology as computation) Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2015.0438 by Ricard Solé Complexity 93 - Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/93 The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2 by Chris Kempes and David Krakauer Simon Conway Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Conway_Morris (re: macroevolutionary trends) Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16035-9 by Jaewon Shin et al. Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn https://www.quantamagazine.org/smarter-parts-make-collective-systems-too-stubborn-20190226/ by Jordana Cepelewicz at Complexity 90 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/90 Will Ratcliff https://twitter.com/wc_ratcliff/status/1423359928941436930 (re: yeasts and emergent multi-cellularity) Complexity 29 - On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29 Synthetic criticality in cellular brains https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ac35b3/meta by Ricard Solé et al. Tom Ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Ray (re: artificial life) Complexity and fragility in ecological networks https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088846/pdf/PB012039.pdf by Ricard Solé and José Montoya Ecological Networks and Their Fragility https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04927 by José Montoya, Stuart Pimm, and Ricard Solé The small world of human language https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088874/pdf/PB012261.pdf by Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard Solé Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement https://scarpino.github.io/files/s41567-020-0791-2.pdf by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Sam Scarpino, and Jean-Gabriel Young Complexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/56 Complexity 66 - Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/66 Chris Langton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langton (re: criticality) Jim Crutchfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Crutchfield (re: the edge of chaos) Per Bak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Bak (re: self-organized criticality) Complexity 10 - Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/10 Complexity 3 - Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/3 Niles Eldredge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles_Eldredge (re: punctuated equilibria) Terraforming the biosphere: can bioengineering save us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyTw5xMzy4 SFI Seminar by Ricard Solé Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2021.0376?af=R by Ricard Solé and Simon Levin Ecological firewalls for synthetic biology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222009300?via%3Dihub by Blai Vidiella and Ricard Solé Rachel Armstrong https://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/discover/livingtech-reclaimvenice (re: synthetic biology for CO2 fixing in concrete) Stewardship of global collective behavior https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025764118 by Joseph Bak-Coleman et al. Complexity 64 - Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/64 Complexity 5 - Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/5

1h 13m

Dec 22, 2022

In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” 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 voices…so how do we encourage this? New systems must emerge to handle the complexity of digital society…what might they look like? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl https://glenweyl.com/ (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor Cristopher Moore https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/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 “sense-making” problems of the 21st century. Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at COMPLEXITY.SIMPLECAST.COM http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for Undergraduate Complexity Research https://santafe.edu/ucr, our new SFI Press book by John H. Miller https://www.sfipress.org/books/ex-machina, and an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics https://santafe.edu/about/jobs — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED & RELATED WORKS Why I Am A Pluralist https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/why-i-am-a-pluralist/ by Glen Weyl Reflecting on A Possible Quadratic Wormhole between Quantum Mechanics and Plurality https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/quantum-mechanics-and-plurality/ by Michael Freedman, Michal Fabinger, Glen Weyl Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763 by Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik Buterin AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-is-an-ideology-not-a-technology/ by Glen Weyl & Jaron Lanier How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2020-03-20/how-civic-technology-can-help-stop-pandemic by Jaron Lanier & Glen Weyl A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06421.pdf by Vitalik Buterin, Zöe Hitzig, Glen Weyl Equality of Power and Fair Public Decision-making https://www-cs.stanford.edu/people/bplaut/equality_of_power.pdf by Nicole Immorlica, Benjamin Plautt, Glen Weyl Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16035-9 by Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey & Timothy Kohler  Toward a Connected Society https://edib.harvard.edu/toward-connected-society by Danielle Allen The role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spread https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11283.pdf by Antoine Allard, Cris Moore, Samuel Scarpino, Benjamin Althouse, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne The Generals’ Scuttlebutt: Byzantine-Resilient Gossip Protocols https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/541.pdf by Sandro Coretti, Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore, Alexander Russell Effective Resistance for Pandemics: Mobility Network Sparsification for High-Fidelity Epidemic Simulation https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.02449.pdf by Alexander Mercier, Samuel Scarpino, and Cris Moore How Accurate are Rebuttable Presumptions of Pretrial Dangerousness? A Natural Experiment from New Mexico https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4143886 by Cris Moore, Elise Ferguson, Paul Guerin The Uncertainty Principle: In an age of profound disagreements, mathematics shows us how to pursue truth together https://sites.santafe.edu/~moore/Feature.Moore.Kaag.pdf by Cris Moore & John Kaag On Becoming Aware: A pragmatics of experiencing https://benjamins.com/catalog/aicr.43 by Nathalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, and Pierre Vermersch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform The World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity by David Deutsch [Twitter thread on chess] https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1514103831906324485?lang=en by Vitalik Buterin Letter from Birmingham Jail https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf by Martin Luther King, Jr. The End of History and The Last Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man by Francis Fukuyama Enabling the Individual: Simmel, Dewey and “The Need for a Philosophy of Education” https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Enabling-the-Individual%3A-Simmel%2C-Dewey-and-%E2%80%9CThe-for-Koenig/d9800846fcf1e1f1aa41b012d7547f3f077f99f5 by H. Koenig Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti of The Holy Father Francis on Fraternity and Social Friendship https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html by Pope Francis What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine? https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03886 by David Wolpert J.C.R. Licklider (1 https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/jcr-licklider, 2 https://casey.com/blog/2019/02/21/i-owe-j-c-r-licklider-an-apology/) Allison Duettman https://twitter.com/allisondman (re: existential hope) Evan Miyazono https://twitter.com/emiyazono (re: Protocol Labs research) Intangible Capital https://www.intangiblecapital.org/index.php/ic (“an 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, accounting…”) Polis https://pol.is/home (“a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning”) RELATED COMPLEXITY PODCAST EPISODES 7 - Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/7 51 - Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/51 55 - James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/55 68 - W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68 69 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/69 82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82 83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/83 84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/84 91 - Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/91

1h 17m

Dec 10, 2022

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 — 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 “curiosity” of even larger systems in which we’re embedded — 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. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/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 kind… Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at COMPLEXITY.SIMPLECAST.COM http://complexity.simplecast.com  . If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Please also note that we are now accepting applications for an open postdoc fellowship https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/fellow-belief-dynamics, next summer’s undergraduate research program https://santafe.edu/engage/learn/programs/undergraduate-complexity-research, and the next cohort of Complexity Explorer’s course in the digital humanities https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics. 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNOU_5dH044 panel discussions on intelligence and the limits to human performance in space… Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Prospective Learning: Back to the Future https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07372 by The Future Learning Collective (Joshua Vogelstein, et al.) The Learning Salon: Toward a new participatory science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627321006206 by Ida Momennejad, John Krakauer, Claire Sun, Eva Yezerets, Kanaka Rajan, Joshua Vogelstein, Brad Wyble Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opinion/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html by Melanie Mitchell at Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdf by John Maynard Keynes The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon https://nautil.us/the-intelligent-life-of-the-city-raccoon-rp-235106/ by Jude Isabella at The maintenance of vocal learning by gene-culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689831/ by R. F. Lachlan and P. J. B. Slater Mindscape Podcast 87 - Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/03/09/87-karl-friston-on-brains-predictions-and-free-energy/ by Sean Carroll The Apportionment of Human Diversity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apportionment_of_Human_Diversity by Richard Lewontin From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution https://templetonpress.org/books/from-extraterrestrials-to-animal-minds/ by Simon Conway Morris I Am a Strange Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop by Douglas Hoftstadter Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338 by Jessica Flack Daniel Dennett https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/daniel-dennett Susan Blackmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blackmore RELATED EPISODES: Complexity 9 - Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/9 Complexity 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12 Complexity 21 - Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/21 Complexity 31 - Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/31 Complexity 52 - Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/52 Complexity 55 - James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/55 Complexity 87 - Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/87 Complexity 90 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/90 Complexity 95 - John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/95

49m

Nov 23, 2022

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 — be it micro, macro, anatomical, behavioral — are destined to leave out crucial insights. What more, thinking “vertically” across scales, one might miss important angles from another discipline along the “horizontal” 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 https://www.britannica.com/topic/anekantavada#:~:text=anekantavada%2C%20(Sanskrit%3A%20%E2%80%9Cnon,is%20both%20constant%20and%20inevitable. — how many blind people does it take to grok an elephant? — neuroscience is perhaps best practiced as innately and intensely multiperspectival… Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/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 — in animals and humans — and how subjects as complex as brains invite a different way of seeing, one that synthesizes of seeing… Thanks for your patience with the recent delays in publication — 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com, and stay tuned for part two — 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 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28182904/ John Krakauer, Asif Ghazanfar, Alex Gomez-Marin, Malcolm MacIver, David Poeppel Two Views of the Cognitive Brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6 David Barack & John Krakauer On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=797 Richard Doyle Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/72 Complexity Podcast Episode 72 Former SFI Fellow David Kinney http://davidbkinney.com/, epistemologist (re: disciplines as levels of explanatory granularity) Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338 Jessica Flack Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World https://www.shambhala.com/integral-ecology-814.html Sean Esbjörn-Hargens & Michael Zimmerman Carl Cranor https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/cfcranor, moral philosopher (re: causation) The Learning Salon: Toward a new participatory science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627321006206 Ida Momennejad, John Krakauer, Claire Sun, Eva Yezerets, Kanaka Rajan, Joshua Vogelstein, Brad Wyble Brain Inspired Podcast https://braininspired.co/ Paul Middlebrooks eLife Journal https://elifesciences.org/ biorXiv https://www.biorxiv.org/ W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68 Complexity Podcast Episode 68 W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/69 Complexity Podcast Episode 69 Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta?variant=32280908103714 Tyson Yunkaporta

51m

Nov 11, 2022

Communication is a physical process. It’s common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes work…but 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 happen…but 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 play… Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including a handful of open postdoctoral fellowships — at SANTAFE.EDU/ENGAGE https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Lastly, this weekend — October 22nd & 23rd — 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 can’t tune in for the live event. Learn more at interplanetaryfest.org http://interplanetaryfest.org… Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: NONLINEAR THERMODYNAMICS OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS by Farita Tasnim and David Wolpert (forthcoming at arXiv.org) Heterogeneity and Efficiency in the Brain https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7155485 by Vijay Balasubramanian Noisy Deductive Reasoning: How Humans Construct Math, and How Math Constructs Universes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08298 by David Wolpert & David Kinney Stochastic Mathematical Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00543 by David Wolpert & David Kinney Twenty-five years of nanoscale thermodynamics https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00869-y by Chase P. Broedersz & Pierre Ronceray Ten Questions about The Hard Limits of Human Intelligence https://aeon.co/essays/ten-questions-about-the-hard-limits-of-human-intelligence by David Wolpert What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine? https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1567228218398363648 by David Wolpert Communication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex, but both costs are needed to predict synapse number https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106317/ by William Levy & Victoria Calvert An exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221078593 by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, David Wolpert When Slower Is Faster /When%20Slower%20is%20Faster by Carlos Gershenson & Dirk Helbing ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: The stochastic thermodynamics of computation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/ab0850/meta by David Wolpert Elements of Information Theory, Second Edition https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/047174882X (textbook) by Thomas Cover & Joy Thomas Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach https://theory.cs.princeton.edu/complexity/ (textbook) by Sanjeev Arora & Boaz Barak An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-49820-1 (textbook) by Ming Li & Paul Vitányi

1h 6m

Oct 21, 2022

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 we’re 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. Let’s 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. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 http://protobiology.org/indexd.php, 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships https://www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/complexity-postdoc! If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Nonenzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis Inside Model Protocells https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1241888 Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2644 Competition between model protocells driven by an encapsulated catalyst https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1650 Synthetic cells in biomedical applications https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wnan.1761 Parasites, infections and inoculation in synthetic minimal cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.11.491559v1.abstract Build-a-Cell: Engineering a Synthetic Cell Community https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/11/1176 The Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life: Monolith Monologues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhjEVaYY2g&list=PLZlVBTf7N6GpSX039xr_P0C5nvuUQvTJF Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/87 by Kevin Kelly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Technology_Wants Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12 Scott Page https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/scottepage/bio/ Mind Children by Hans Moravec https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576186 The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2 Michael Lachmann https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-lachmann Terraforming the Biosphere by Ricard Solé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyTw5xMzy4 Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/35 Red Queen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis#Origin

1h 9m

Oct 01, 2022

One way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena — 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 — and what sounds — emerge by bringing physicists, composers, social scientists, data artists, and biologists together? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 SFI’s External Professors — Miguel Fuentes https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/miguel-fuentes at the Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis and the Institute of Complex Systems of Valparaiso, and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/marco-buongiorno-nardelli at the University of North Texas — 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 Miguel’s 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 http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships https://www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/complexity-postdoc! If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by MITCH MIGNANO https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: TWITTER http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YOUTUBE http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • FACEBOOK http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LINKEDIN https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: An ‘integrated mess of music lovers in science’ https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/integrated-mess-music-lovers-science on the 2020 Music & Complexity SFI Working Group (with YouTube playlist of talks) Expanding our understanding of musical complexity https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/expanding-our-understanding-musical-complexity on the 2022 Music & Complexity SFI Working Group Topology of Networks in Generalized Musical Spaces https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01842 by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli Tonal harmony and the topology of dynamical score networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01033 by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli a computer-aided data-driven composition environment for the sonification and dramatization of scientific data streams https://www.materialssoundmusic.com/_files/ugd/b0d8e5_a581fd71da8a423d9d4142e63c4b7598.pdf by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli Machines that listen: towards a machine listening model based on perceptual descriptors https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02263890/document by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Mitsuko Aramaki, Sølvi Ystad, and Richard Kronland-Martinet Does network complexity help organize Babel’s library? https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7336 by Juan Pablo Cárdenas Iván González, Gerardo Vidal, and Miguel Fuentes Complexity and the Emergence of Physical Properties https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/8/4489 by Miguel Fuentes The Structure of Online Information Behind Social Crises https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.650648/full by Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Gastón Olivares, Gerardo Vidal, Carolina Urbina and Miguel Fuentes 88 - Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/88 Complexity Podcast 86 - Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/86 Complexity Podcast 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/81 Complexity Podcast 67 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/67 Complexity Podcast 36 - Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/36 Complexity Podcast 27 - COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/27 Complexity Podcast Ignorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIah2JtqlZk by Stuart Firestein (SFI Community Lecture) SFI’s Operating Principles https://www.santafe.edu/about/operating-principles by Cormac McCarthy

57m

Sep 21, 2022

As the old nut goes, “To the victor go the spoils.” But if each round of play consolidates the spoils into fewer hands, eventually it comes to pass that wealthy special interests twist the rules so much it undermines the game itself. When economic power overtakes the processes of democratic governance, growth stagnates, and the rift between the rich and poor becomes abyssal. Desperate times and desperate measures jeopardize the fabric of society. How might nonpartisan approaches to this wicked problem help us walk the system back into a healthy balance? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 speak with Steven Teles, political scientist at Johns Hopkins University https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/steven-teles/ and SFI External Professor Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/ about how self-serving economic actors intervene in regulation to stifle innovation, increase inequality, and contribute to the conditions in which violence can flourish. Referencing Teles’ aisle-crossing book with co-author Brink Lindsey, we link the problem of regulatory capture in its myriad forms to Sethi’s work on race, inequality, and crime, which we discussed in Episode 7 (Rajiv Sethi on Crime, Stereotypes, and The Pursuit of Justice) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/7. At the interface between the left and right, public and private, our guests shed light on the forces that divide — and may help reunite — the USA and other modern nations. Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships https://www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/complexity-postdoc! Tell a friend. And if you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MORE ON THE EMERGENT POLITICAL ECONOMIES SFI RESEARCH THEME: SFI launches new research theme on emergent political economies https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/sfi-launches-new-research-theme-emergent-political-economy Complexity 82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82 Complexity 83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/83 Complexity 84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/84 REFERENCED IN (OR RELATED TO) THIS EPISODE: https://capturedeconomy.com/ by Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles https://capturedeconomy.com/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976597 by Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976597 Complexity 19 - David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/19 https://lewishyde.com/common-as-air/ by Lewis Hyde https://lewishyde.com/common-as-air/ Signalling architectures can prevent cancer evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57494-w by Leonardo Oña & Michael Lachmann https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57494-w Scaling of urban income inequality in the USA https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2021.0223 by Elisa Heinrich Mora, Cate Heine, Jacob J. Jackson, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Christopher P. Kempes https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2021.0223 Crime and Punishment in a Divided Society https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo50271161.html by Rajiv Sethi https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo50271161.html Rajiv Sethi discusses gun violence, critical race theory, and bezzles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITlRTwr22ls on The Glenn Loury Show (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITlRTwr22ls (audio-only podcast link) https://glennloury.substack.com/p/rajiv-sethi-our-gun-problem#details The Gun Deal by Rajiv Sethi (Substack) https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-gun-deal Rajiv Sethi reviews Boldrin/Levine’s https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/on-intellectual-property-and-guard-10-02-24 Steven Teles and Brink Lindsey on EconTalk with Russ Roberts https://russroberts.info/podcast/brink-lindsey-and-steven-teles-on-the-captured-economy/ Is Nothing Sacred? Rajiv Sethi on Salman Rushdie (Substack) https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/is-nothing-sacred Rajiv Sethi with Bari Weiss and David French on gun violence https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-to-do-about-guns/id1570872415?i=1000565759542 Rajiv Sethi on James Tobin’s Hirsch Lecture on Functional Inefficiency in Finance (Substack) https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/james-tobins-hirsch-lecture-10-05-16

1h 11m

Sep 02, 2022

Chances are you’re listening to this on an advanced computer that fits in your pocket, but is really just one tentacle tip of a giant, planet-spanning architecture for the gathering and processing of data. A common sentiment among the smartphone-enabled human population is that we not only don’t own our data, but our data owns us — or, at least, the pressure of responsibility to keep providing data to the Internet and its devices (and the wider project of human knowledge construction) implicates us in the evolution of a vast, mysterious, largely ineffable self-organizing system that has grabbed the reins of our economies and cultures. This is, in some sense, hardly new: since humankind first started writing down our memories to pass them down through time, we have participated in the “dataome” — a structure and a process that transcends, and transforms, our individuality. Fast-forward to the modern era, when the rapidly-evolving aggregation of all human knowledge tips the scales in favor of the dataome’s emergent agency and its demands on us… Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 talk to Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, about his book, The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, and LIfe’s Unending Algorithm. In this episode, we talk about the interplay of information, energy, and matter; the nature of the dataome and its relationship to humans and our artifacts; the past and future evolution of the biosphere and technosphere; the role of lies in the emergent informational metabolisms of the Internet; and what this psychoactive frame suggests about the search for hypothetical intelligences we may yet find in outer space. Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that applications are now open for our Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships https://www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/complexity-postdoc! Tell a friend. And if you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED AND RELATED RESOURCES: Caleb’s Personal Website, Research Publications, and Popular Writings http://www.calebscharf.com/ Caleb’s Twitter https://twitter.com/caleb_scharf We Are The Aliens https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-the-aliens/ by Caleb Scharf at Scientific American We Are Our Data, Our Data Are Us https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-08/data-dataome-symbiosis-human-evolution by Caleb Scharf at The Los Angeles Times Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? https://nautil.us/is-physical-law-an-alien-intelligence-2-10052/ by Caleb Scharf at Nautilus Where Do Minds Belong? https://aeon.co/essays/intelligent-machines-might-want-to-become-biological-again by Caleb Scharf at Aeon Autopoiesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis (Wikipedia) The physical limits of communication https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907500 by Michael Lachmann, M. E. J. Newman, Cristopher Moore The Extended Phenotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype by Richard Dawkins “Time Binding” (c/o Alfred Korzybski’s General Semantics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics#The_major_premises (Wikipedia) The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone http://bactra.org/weblog/699.html by Cosma Shalizi Argument-making in the wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIICBNN_fg SFI Seminar by Simon DeDeo Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338 by Jessica Flack If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking? https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/if-modern-humans-are-so-smart-why-are-our-brains-shrinking by Kathleen McAuliffe at Discover Magazine When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.742639/full by Jeremy DeSilva, James Traniello, Alexander Claxton, & Luke Fannin Complexity 35 - Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/35 The Collapse of Networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woeQJNev89w SFI Symposium Presentation by Raissa D'Souza Jevons Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox (Wikipedia) What Technology Wants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Technology_Wants by Kevin Kelly The Glass Cage https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=18 by Nicholas Carr The evolution of language https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.14.8028 by Martin Nowak and David Krakauer Complexity 70 - Lauren F. Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/70 Complexity 87 - Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/87 Simulation hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis (Wikipedia) Complexity 88 - Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/88 Building a dinosaur from a chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVXdEOiCw8 by Jack Horner at TED Complexity 80 - Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/80 Why Animals Lie: How Dishonesty and Belief Can Coexist in a Signaling System https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/508809 by Jonathan T. Rowell, Stephen P. Ellner, & H. Kern Reeve THE EVOLUTION OF LYING IN WELL-MIXED POPULATIONS https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.0211 by Valerio Capraro, Matjaž Perc & Daniele Vilone Complexity 42 - Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/42

1h 22m

Aug 19, 2022

Human beings are distinctly weird. We live for a very long time after we stop reproducing, move completely differently than all of our closest relatives, lack the power of chimpanzees and other primates but completely outdo most other terrestrial mammals in a contest of endurance. If we think about bodies as hypotheses about the stable features of their ancestral environments, what do the features of our unusual physiology say about what humans ARE, where we come from, the details of our origin story as a profoundly successful species? And what can we learn by telescoping that story forward to explain some of the most persistent puzzles and paradoxes about our health, the way we age, our need for physical exercise, and our nearly ubiquitous aversion to habits that are good for us? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 sprint into the paleoanthropology, biomechanics, and physiology of exercise with Harvard evolutionary biologist DANIEL LIEBERMAN, author of several books https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Lieberman/e/B003OMIK5I%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share including , and . In our rapid-fire discussion we explore how millions of years as hunter-gatherers equipped hominids with a unique package of adaptations for endurance running, why exercise is so good for us but so generally undesirable, and how physical activity in old age helped shape us into the strongly intergenerational social apes we are today. Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that applications are now open for our 2023 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships https://www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/complexity-postdoc! Tell a friend. And if you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED PAPERS AND OTHER RESOURCES: SFI Colloquium & Twitter thread on Daniel Lieberman’s “Active Grandparent Hypothesis” https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1526995889134440456 The evolution of human fatigue resistance https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00360-022-01439-4 by Frank E. Marino, Benjamin E. Sibson, Daniel E. Lieberman  "What beer and running taught me about the scientific process" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbax_mtacUI Seminar by SFI Journalism Fellow Christie Aschwanden Endurance running and the evolution of Homo http://trainspotting.free.fr/barefootpat/Bramble_and_Lieberman_Nature_2004.pdf by Dennis Bramble & Daniel Lieberman in SFI Professor David Wolpert & the thermodynamics of computation https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/david-wolpert Complexity 64 - Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/64 3100: Run and Become https://3100film.com/ (Documentary Film) Why run unless something is chasing you? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/daniel-lieberman-busts-exercising-myths/ by Daniel Lieberman at The Harvard Gazette Hate Working Out? Blame Evolution https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/books/review/exercised-daniel-lieberman.html by Daniel LIeberman at The New York Times The Aging of Wolff’s “Law”: Ontogeny and Responses to Mechanical Loading in Cortical Bone https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15605390/ by Osbjorn Pearson & DanielL Lieberman Effects of footwear cushioning on leg and longitudinal arch stiffness during running https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021929021006254 by Nicholas B.Holowkaab, Stephen M.Gillinovac, EmmanuelVirot, Daniel E.Lieberman

52m

Aug 03, 2022

Ask any martial artist: It’s not just where a person strikes you but your stance that matters. The amplitude and angle of a blow is one thing but how you can absorb and/or deflect it makes the difference. The same is true in any evolutionary system. Most people seem to know “the butterfly effect” where tiny changes lead to large results, but the inverse also works: complex organisms buffer their development against adverse mutations so that tiny changes cannot redirect the growth of limbs and other organs. It takes a lot to shake the pattern of five fingers on a hand, or five toes on a paw. This is robustness: how much change can something soak up before it transforms? The question leads us into a secret garden of cryptic variation: mutations waiting for their moment, pieces sitting in place that might suddenly and radically metamorphose in changing circumstances. It’s why evolution stutters, halts and leaps, and maybe it can help us think about society and mind in ways that deepen comprehension of the tangled and surprising forces playing out at all scales, in society and in ecology. For quests as deep as these, we need to wear new lenses and train inquiries stereoscopically. How can and do the sciences and the humanities inform each other as we keep evolving — not just biologically, but culturally? Can we triangulate the truth by holding theories side by side and looking through them all together? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 Aviv Bergman https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/aviv-bergman (Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZfxRzVUAAAAJ&hl=en), External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute and Director of the new Albert Einstein Institute for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences https://www.einsteinmed.edu/centers/advanced-study-in-life-sciences/. Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com http://complexity.simplecast.com/. Note that our applications for SFI postdoctoral fellowships open on August 1st! Tell a friend. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED PAPERS: Waddington’s canalization revisited: Developmental stability and evolution https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.102303999 Mark L. Siegal & Aviv Bergman Evolutionary capacitance as a general feature of complex gene networks https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12891357/ Aviv Bergman & Mark L. Siegal Phenotypic Pliancy and the Breakdown of Epigenetic Polycomb Mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.18.476783v2 Maryl Lambros, Yehonatan Sella, Aviv Bergman Mammalian Endothermy Optimally Restricts Fungi and Metabolic Costs https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00212-10 Aviv Bergman & Arturo Casadevall How on Earth can Aliens Survive? Concept and Case Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AGUzOMDmqo Aviv Bergman’s 2022 SFI Seminar ADDITIONAL MENTIONED PODCASTS, VIDEOS, & WRITING: Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/21 On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29 Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/84 Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/8 James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/55 Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/9 What Determines The Complexity of Writing Systems? https://youtu.be/r1zL6-We3SE on the work of SFI Fellow Helena Miton Does the Ecology of Somatic Tissue Normally Constrain the Evolution of Cancer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM7yGdvwNAk SFI Seminar by External Professor John Pepper Explosive Proofs of Mathematical Truths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVWNt11f2c SFI Seminar by External Professor Simon DeDeo Armchair Science https://aeon.co/essays/do-thought-experiments-really-uncover-new-scientific-truths by 2022 SFI Journalism Fellow Dan Falk at The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative https://voxeu.org/article/coming-battle-covid-19-narrative Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin 10 April 2020 Ignorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIah2JtqlZk Stuart Firestein’s 2022 SFI Community Lecture "Ancestral forms are very different, but as you increase regulatory interactions is decreasing the space of the possible. You can think of bureaucracy..." - SFI President David Krakauer on #DevoBias2018 https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1062852316561395717

1h 14m

Jul 18, 2022

What is life, and where does it come from? These are two of the deepest, most vexing, and persistent questions in science, and their enduring mystery and allure is complicated by the fact that scientists approach them from a myriad of different angles, hard to reconcile. Whatever else one might identify as universal features of all living systems, most scholars would agree life is a physical phenomenon unfolding in time. And yet current physics is notorious for its inadequacy with respect to time. Life appears to hinge on information transfer — but, again, what do we mean by “information,” and what it is relationship to energy and matter? If humankind can’t settle fundamental issues with these theoretical investigations, we might be missing other kinds of life (and mind) — not just in outer space, but here on Earth, right beneath our noses. But new models that suggest a vastly wider definition of life offer hope that we might — soon! — not only learn to recognize the biospheres and technospheres of other living worlds, but notice other “aliens” at home, and even find our place amidst a living cosmos. Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 speak with SFI External Professor Sara Walker https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1731899 (Twitter https://twitter.com/sara_imari, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-9WfhCYAAAAJ&hl=en), Deputy Director of The Beyond Center at ASU, where she acts as Associate Professor in half a dozen different programs. In this conversation, we discuss her pioneering research in the origins of life and the profound and diverse implications of Assembly Theory — a new kind of physics she’s developing with chemist Leroy Cronin and a team of SFI and NASA scholars.  Sara likes to speculate out loud in public conversation, so strap in for an unusually enthusiastic, animated, and free-roaming conversation at the very bleeding edge of science. And be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com http://complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603 or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2YRNavdimPddYFaNvQDU7I, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONED PAPERS: Intelligence as a planetary scale process https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process-corrigendum/9E1D5998590AE603119406E61C91A20F by Adam Frank, David Grinspoon & Sara Walker The Algorithmic Origins of Life https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4803 by Sara Imari Walker & Paul C. W. Davies Beyond prebiotic chemistry: What dynamic network properties allow the emergence of life? https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aaf6310 by Leroy Cronin & Sara Walker Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23258-x by Stuart Marshall, Cole Mathis, Emma Carrick, Graham Keenan, Geoffrey Cooper, Heather Graham, Matthew Craven, Piotr Gromski, Douglas Moore, Sara Walker & Leroy Cronin Assembly Theory Explains and Quantifies the Emergence of Selection and Evolution https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02279.pdf by Abhishek Sharma, Dániel Czégel, Michael Lachmann, Christopher Kempes, Sara Walker, Leroy Cronin Quantum Non-Barking Dogs https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0290 by Sara Imari Walker, Paul C. W. Davies, Prasant Samantray, Yakir Aharonov The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2 by Christopher P. Kempes & David C. Krakauer  OTHER RELATED VIDEOS & WRITING: SFI Seminar - Why Black Holes Eat Information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ViQk4WNZ4o by Vijay Balasubramanian Major Transitions in Planetary Evolution https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/alife2018/30/101/99715 by Hikaru Furukawa and Sara Imari Walker 2022 Community Lecture: “Recognizing The Alien in Us” https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1506434183119310849?lang=bg by Sara Walker Sara Walker and Lee Cronin: The Alien Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxIazwNP_0 on The Lex Fridman Show If Cancer Were Easy, Every Cell Would Do It https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/if-cancer-were-easy-every-cell-would-do-it SFI Press Release on work by Michael Lachmann https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780316300162/ by Kim Stanley Robinson Re: Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_experiment Wikipedia On the SFI “Exploring Life’s Origins” Research Project https://www.santafe.edu/research/projects/exploring-lifes-origins Complexity Explorer’s Origins of Life Free Open Online Course https://www.santafe.edu/events/origins-life-online-course Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMpzJVC7taE Simon Saunders, Philosopher of Physics at Oxford https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-simon-saunders RELATED SFI PODCAST EPISODES: Complexity 2 - The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019 https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/2 Complexity 8 - Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/8 Complexity 17 - Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/17 Complexity 40 - The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/40 Complexity 41 - Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/41 Complexity 68 - W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns & Verbs (Part 1) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/68 Complexity 80 - Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/80 Alien Crash Site 015 - Cole Mathis https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/015 Alien Crash Site 019 - Heather Graham https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/019 Alien Crash Site 020 - Chris Kempes https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/020 Alien Crash Site 021 - Natalie Grefenstette https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/021

1h 22m

Jul 02, 2022

Math and music share their mystery and magic. Three notes, played together, make a chord whose properties could not be predicted from those of the separate notes. In the West, music theory and mathematics have common origins and a rich history of shaping and informing one another’s field of inquiry. And, curiously, Western composition has evolved over several hundred years in much the same way economies and agents in long-running simulations have: becoming measurably more complex; encoding more and more environmental structure. (But then, sometimes collapses happen, and everything gets simpler.) Music theorists, like the alchemists that came before them, are engaged in a centuries-long project of deciphering the invisible geometry of these relationships. What is the hidden grammar that connects The Beatles to Johann Sebastian Bach — and how similar is it to the hidden order disclosed by complex systems science? In other words, what makes for “good” music, and what does it have to do with the coherence of the natural world? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 speak with mathematician and composer Dmitri Tymozcko at Princeton University, whose work provides a new rigor to the study of the Western canon and illuminates “the shape of music” — a hyperspatial object from which all works of baroque, classical, romantic, modern, jazz, and pop are all low-dimensional projections. In the first conversation for this podcast with MIDI keyboard accompaniment, we follow upon Gottfried Leibniz’s assertion that music is “the unconscious exercise of our mathematical powers.” We explore how melodies and harmonies move through mathematical space in ways quite like the metamorphoses of living systems as they traverse evolutionary fitness landscapes. We examine the application of information theory to chord categorization and functional harmony. And we ask about the nature of randomness, the roles of parsimony and consilience in both art and life. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at complexity.simplecast.com https://complexity.simplecast.com/. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: All of Tymoczko’s writings mentioned in this conversation can be found on his https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/publications.htmlPrinceton.edu http://Princeton.edu website https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/publications.html You can explore his interactive music software at https://www.madmusicalscience.com/MadMusicalScience.com http://MadMusicalScience.com The Geometry of Musical Chords https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1126287 by Dmitri Tymoczko An Information Theoretic Approach to Chord Categorization and Functional Harmony https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283094125_An_Information_Theoretic_Approach_to_Chord_Categorization_and_Functional_Harmony by Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby and Dmitri Tymoczko This Mathematical Song of the Emotions https://www.berfrois.com/2011/08/geometric-listening/ by Dmitri Tymoczko The Sound of Philosophy https://bostonreview.net/articles/dmitri-tymoczko-sound-philosophy/ by Dmitri Tymoczko Select Tymoczko Video Lectures: Spacious Spatiality (SEMF) 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQve9_c3UfY The Quadruple Hierarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gv0WD1Df4k&list=PLZlVBTf7N6GpB7yGsteqDwH84e5n-7zyh The Shape of Music (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyx31f-U3M On the 2020 SFI Music & Complexity Working Group https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/integrated-mess-music-lovers-science (with a link to the entire video playlist of public presentations). On the 2022 SFI Music & Complexity Working Group https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/expanding-our-understanding-musical-complexity Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics Institute at SFI https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/programs/foundations-and-applications-humanities-analytics Short explainer animation on SFI Professor Sidney Redner’s work on “Sleeping Beauties of Science” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2FnIa5nlY&list=PLZlVBTf7N6GqvUw0CTV78pgL_FVjHREaR&index=2 The evolution of syntactic communication https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10761917/ by Martin Nowak, Joshua Plotkin, Vincent Jansen The Majesty of Music and Math (PBS special with SFI’s Cris Moore) https://www.pbs.org/video/majesty-of-music-and-math-egpyyf/ The physical limits of communication https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907500 by Michael Lachmann, Mark Newman, Cristopher Moore Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2S7dqS0Xg SFI Seminar by Simon DeDeo Will brains or algorithms rule the kingdom of science? https://aeon.co/essays/will-brains-or-algorithms-rule-the-kingdom-of-science by David Krakauer at Aeon Magazine Scaling, Mirror Symmetries and Musical Consonances Among the Distances of the Planets of the Solar System https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.758184/full by Michael Bank and Nicola Scafetta “The reward system for people who do a really wonderful job of extracting knowledge and understanding and wisdom…is skewed in the wrong way. If left to the so-called free market, it’s mainly skewed toward entertainment or something that’s narrowly utilitarian for some business firm or set of business firms.” – Murray Gell-Mann, A Crude Look at The Whole Part 180/200 (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGjsWiA_mM&feature=youtu.be RELATED EPISODES: Complexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/81 Complexity 72 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/72 Complexity 70 - Lauren F. Klein on Data Feminism: Surfacing Invisible Labor https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/70 Complexity 67 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/67 Complexity 46 - Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/46 Complexity 29 - On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29

1h 25m

Jun 18, 2022

We lead our lives largely unaware of the immense effort required to support them. All of us grew up inside the so-called “Grid” — actually one of many interconnected regional power grids that electrify our modern world. The physical infrastructure and the regulatory intricacies required to keep the lights on: both have grown organically, piecemeal, in complex networks that nobody seems to fully understand. And yet, we must. Compared to life 150 years ago, we are all utterly dependent on the power grid, and learning how it operates — how tiny failures cause cascading crises, and how tense webs of collaborators make decisions on the way that electricity is priced and served — matters now more than ever. Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the SANTA FE INSTITUTE. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 speak with SFI External Professor Seth Blumsack https://www.eme.psu.edu/directory/seth-blumsackhttps://www.eme.psu.edu/directory/seth-blumsack (Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=07sAJX8AAAAJ&hl=en), Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs in EME and Director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy at Penn State. In this conversation we explore the arcane yet urgent systems that comprise the power grid and how it’s operated, reminding us that the mundane is ever a deep reservoir of questions. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at complexity.simplecast.com https://complexity.simplecast.com/. Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Topological Models and Critical Slowing down: Two Approaches to Power System Blackout Risk Analysis https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5718524 by Paul Hines, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, & Seth Blumsack Do topological models provide good information about electricity infrastructure vulnerability? https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3489887 by Paul HinesEduardo Cotilla-Sanchez & Seth Blumsack Can capacity markets be designed by democracy? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11149-018-9354-1 by Kyungjin Yoo & Seth Blumsack The Political Complexity of Regional Electricity Policy Formation https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2018/3493492/ by Kyungjin Yoo & Seth Blumsack The Energy Transition in New Mexico: Insights from a Santa Fe Institute Workshop https://www.santafe.edu/research/projects/energy-transition-new-mexico by Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines, Cristopher Moore, and Jessika E. Trancik EBF 483: Introduction to Electricity Markets https://www.e-education.psu.edu/ebf483/ by Seth Blumsack What’s behind $15,000 electricity bills in Texas? https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-15-000-electricity-bills-in-texas-155822 by Seth Blumsack RTOGov: Exploring Links Between Market Decision-Making Processes and Outcomes https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications/rtogov-exploring-links-between-market-decision-making-processes-and-outcomes by Kate Konschnik Ensuring Consideration of the Public Interest in the Governance and Accountability of Regional Transmission Organizations https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/energy28&div=29&id=&page= by Michael H. Dworkin & Rachel Aslin Goldwasser Electricity governance and the Western energy imbalance market in the United States: The necessity of interorganizational collaboration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629616301220 by Stephanie Lenhart, Natalie Nelson-Marsh, Elizabeth J. Wilson, & David Solan Untangling the Wires in Electricity Market Planning, with Kate Konschnik https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/untangling-the-wires-in-electricity-market-planning-with-kate-konschnik/ by Resources Radio Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12 Complexity Podcast 12 Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/78 Complexity Podcast 78 The Collective Computation of Reality in Nature and Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYLLyfs1Ts Jessica Flack’s 2019 SFI Community Lecture Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/67 Complexity Podcast 67 Early-warning signals for critical transitions https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/2009/scheffer2009a.pdf by Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock, Victor Brovkin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Vasilis Dakos1, Hermann Held, Egbert H. van Nes , Max Rietkerk & George Sugihara Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/84 Complexity Podcast 84 Anjali Bhatt https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=656900 Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/73 Complexity Podcast 73 Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/9 Complexity Podcast 9 Jessika Trancik https://idss.mit.edu/staff/jessika-trancik/ Signalling architectures can prevent cancer evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57494-w by Leonardo Oña & Michael Lachmann The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/79 Complexity Podcast 79 Image Credit: Paul Hines https://twitter.com/paulhinesenergy/status/1054142093986332675

1h 7m

Jun 04, 2022

As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle? Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the SANTA FE INSTITUTE. I’m your host, MICHAEL GARFIELD https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield, and every other week we’ll 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 speak with two SFI External Professors helping to rethink political economy: newly-appointed Science Board Co-Chair RICARDO HAUSMANN (Website https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/people/ricardo-hausmann-0, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_HausmannTwitter https://twitter.com/ricardo_hausman) is the Director of the Harvard Growth Lab and J. DOYNE FARMER (Website http://www.doynefarmer.com/about-me, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer) is Director of the Complexity Economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In this episode we zoom wide to try and find a way to garden all together, learning limits that can help inform discussion and decisions on the shape of things to come… If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/santafe.edu/engage. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at complexity.simplecast.com https://complexity.simplecast.com/. Heads up that our online education platform Complexity Explorer’s Origins of Life Course is still open for enrollment until June 1st! We hope to see you in there… Thank you for listening! Join our Facebook discussion group https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases. Follow us on social media: Twitter http://twitter.com/sfiscience • YouTube http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience • Facebook http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute • Instagram http://instagram.com/sfiscience • LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/20131/ MENTIONS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: The new paradigm of economic complexity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733321002420 Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O’Clery, and David Rigby in Research Policy How production networks amplify economic growth https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106031118 James McNerney, Charles Savoie, Francesco Caravelli, Vasco M. Carvalho, and J. Doyne Farmer  in PNAS Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21689-0 by Neave O’Clery, Muhammed Ali Yıldırım, and Ricardo Hausmann  Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22000092 Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter in ScienceDirect Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00763-4 Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer in Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Twitter thread https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1376663541810294787) Complexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/56 The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2 Christopher P. Kempes and David C. Krakauer  in Journal of Molecular Evolution Scaling of urban income inequality in the USA https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0223 Elisa Heinrich Mora, Cate Heine, Jacob J. Jackson, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Christopher P. Kempes in Journal of The Royal Society Interface Complexity 12 - Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12 Complexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/81 Pitchfork Economics https://pitchforkeconomics.com/ by Nick Hanauer (podcast) Complexity 15 - R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/15 Will a Large Complex System be Stable? https://www.nature.com/articles/238413a0 by Robert May in Nature Investigations https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HLkX-6m4W8kC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Kauffman,+S.%C2%A0A.+(2000).+Investigations.+Oxford:+Oxford+University+Press.&ots=ii2tuXhFfh&sig=fLZVkqNCB897FQYkArz9IZYPEas#v=onepage&q&f=false by Stuart Kauffman The Collapse of Networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woeQJNev89w by Raissa D’Souza (SFI Symposium Talk)

1h 20m

May 21, 2022