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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park

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The Role of Early Warning Signals in Critical Transitions

In jazz improvisation you have multiple elements that are interacting with each other in a distributed way and i could have called that an ecosystem or an economy or just flat out called it a complex system. In these kinds of systems where you have distributed elements interacting in nonlinear ways you can sometimes foresee this loss of resilience that precedes a sudden catastrophic critical transition. So we set out to try to use the tools that had been deployed so well by folks like modern chiffer and others for natural ecosystems to see if they would work just as well for this human social cultural technical jazz ecosystem. That's all sort of a meta on this paper and we have a responsibility to actually talk about this before we

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