Tag: complexity

Sara Imari Walker | An Informational Theory of Life | Long Now Talks

July 4, 2025

“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simple question. Starting from the simplest precursors, Walker… more ›
Long Now: Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life

May 29, 2025

Listen: https://ift.tt/rIZsQev “What is life?”In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simple question. Starting from the simplest precursors,… more ›
The scientist who sees our chaotic future

July 11, 2024

In 1976 J Doyne Farmer walked into a casino in Las Vegas and committed a robbery. Nobody noticed him doing it: to anyone else it would have seemed as though… more ›
Line jumpers

March 23, 2021

To predict the near future with greater accuracy you must relinquish the idea of a fair game. more ›
All stars

December 6, 2020

Is a great team more than the sum of its players? Complexity science reveals the role of strategy, synergy, swarming and more Interest in collective behaviour is not new. It’s… more ›
Let them eat the city, say the urban farmers of Paris

December 6, 2019

Paris, France – Parisian mushrooms are reclaiming their space in the dark spaces under the City of Light. Huge quantities of button mushrooms used to be grown using the manure… more ›
Antifragile states and global cities

December 1, 2019

In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that gain from disorder’. https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/article/show/antifragile-states-and-global-cities-3879/ more ›
Emergences

September 5, 2019

My perspective is closest to . I liked his introducing himself as being interested in intelligence in the wild. I will copy George in that. That is what I’m interested in,… more ›