The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)
Uncertain Things
The Interaction of Complexity Science and Medicine
There is almost something instinctively, I shouldn't say irreconcilable, but very difficult to reconcile the sort of mathematical and bias towards beauty and symmetry that exists within physics with medicine and biology. So in some sense, complexity science is, if you like, if you have a sort of a paint palette, and you mix them all together, mush them all together,. Right? Starting in the 40s and 50s, computation, information theory, and so forth. That's another integration. And then we get to organized complexity, which we tend to all be obsessed with with human society, the products of human ingenuity, and so on. But those integrating those is what's at stake.
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