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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

COMPLEXITY

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The Scale of Selves, Information, Life, and Buddhist Philosophy

Buddhist philosophy has been dominated by the success of physics in describing certain aspects of our world. One alternative, instead of describing the world in terms of matter and energy, is to describe it in terms of information. And there you can avoid this dualist trap, where you cannot explain one from the other. In Buddhist philosophy, you have a similar approach, in the sense that the distinction between the observer, the observed, and the action of observing is an illusion.

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