Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
COMPLEXITY
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106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
Welcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm Michael Garfield, producer of this show and host for the last 105 episodes. Since October, 2019, we have brought you with us for far ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe. Today I step down and depart from SFI with one final appearance as the guest of this episode. Our guest host is SFI President David Krakauer, he and I will braid together with nine other conversations from the archives in a retrospective masterclass on how this podcast traced the contours of complexity. We'll look back on episodes with David, Brian Arthur, Geoffrey West, Doyne Farmer, Deborah Gordon, Tyler Marghetis, Simon DeDeo, Caleb Scharf, and Alison Gopnik to thread some of the show's key themes through into windmills and white whales, SFI pursues, and my own life's persistent greatest questions.
We'll ask about the implications of a world transformed by science and technology by deeper understanding and prediction and the ever-present knock-on consequences. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify and consider making a donation or finding other ways to engage with SFI at Santa fe.edu/engage. Thank you each and all for listening. It's been a pleasure and an honor to take you offroad with us over these last years.
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📚Reading & Videos:
The Lost Worldby Michael Crichton
Jurassic Parkby Michael Crichton
The Evolution of Syntactic Communication)by Martin Nowak, Joshua Plotkin, and Vincent Jansen
InterPlanetary Festival 2018 + SFI Science Explainer Animations)by SFI
Complexity Economics)by SFI Press
Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism)by Simon DeDeo (2019 SFI Seminar)
How To Live in The Future, Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed)by Michael Garfield
Artists Misusing Technology)by NXT Museum
The Collapse of Artificial Intelligence)by Melanie Mitchell (2019 SFI Symposium Talk)
The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models)by Melanie Mitchell & David Krakauer
Welcome To Jurassic Park)by Tink Zorg(re: COVID-19 and the collapse of supply chains)
Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn)by Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta Magazine(re: Albert Kao)
Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism)by Jessica Flack
Argument Making In The Wild)by Simon DeDeo(SFI Seminar re: egregores)
The Collective Computation of Reality in Nature and Society)by Jessica Flack (SFI Community Lecture re: “hourglass emergence”)
Interaction-based evolution: how natural selection and nonrandom mutation work together)by Adi Livnat
In The Country of The Blind (_Afterword: An Introduction to Cliology))by Michael Flynn
An exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligence)by Daniel Kahneman, David Krakauer, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein, David Wolpert
Murray Gell-Mann - Information overload. A crude look at the whole (180/200))(re: the challenges of funding truly innovative research)
The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction)by W.J.T. Mitchell
Intelligence as a planetary scale process)by Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, and Sara Walker
Light & Magic) (documentary series)on Disney+
Palantir Analytics)The Lord of The Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now)by Douglas Rushkoff
Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down)by Vasilis Dakos, Egbert H van Nes, Paolo D’Odorico, Marten Scheffer
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone)by Cosma Shalizi
🎧Podcasts:
Complexity Podcast
001 - David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science)
009 - Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making)
012 - Matthew Jackson on Social and Economic Networks)
013 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics)
016 - Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy)
056 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution)
060 - Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt’s Naturegemälde)
065 - Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers)
067 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics)
072 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology)
087 - Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence)
090 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome)
92 - Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society)
099 - Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.)
Future Fossils Podcast
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions)190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science)
165 - Kevin Kelly on Time, Memory, Change, and Vanishing Asia)
125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible)
Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano)
Other music by Michael Garfield)