The Evolution of Ants

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A small amount of randomness is necessary to adapt if the environment changes. Too much randomness, you can't get any self-organization and it just ants everywhere. Complexity lies at the border between fractal chaos and perfect order. In that little narrow zone there, there's this dynamic creativity out of which come living things.

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary collaborations in fields such as integrative medicine, consciousness studies, and science-religion dialogue.

Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise makes accessible this “theory of being,” one of the pillars of modern science, and its holistic view of human existence.

Learn more about Neil at neiltheiseofficial.com.

Neil's book, Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, is available now!