Social Network Geometry | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 4 (WiM147)
The "What is Money?" Show
Is There Such a Thing as a Single Ant?
"We are possibly the only creature that knows it's going to die," he says. "No other part of nature is like that." We can fantasize about the future by inventing it, so to speak, as you said.
Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies."
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Language as a Technology and the Discovery of the Future
00:07:22 The Human Imagination as Our Most Powerful Tool
00:10:36 Innovating “Imagined Orders” and the Industrial Revolution
00:15:15 The City as a Scaled Representation of the Human Brain?
00:20:42 Where Does the Geometric Structure of Social Networks Come From?
00:24:22 The Speculation Supporting Dunbar’s Number…
00:29:02 Niche Construction and the Psychological Impact of Corrupt Money
00:32:52 Principles of Physics Underlying the Geometry of Social Networks?
00:38:03 Dynamic Network Tension Between Physical Possibility and Information Throughput
00:40:36 NYDIG
00:41:44 Impact of The Digital Age on Social Network Geometry
00:44:10 Historical Telecommunication Revolutions
00:47:54 A Historical Look at the Physical Possibility and Information Throughput of Money…
00:51:03 Geoffrey’s Trouble Conceptualizing Money…
00:54:42 Energy Expenditure is the Mechanism which Secured Gold’s Money Supply
00:58:37 Free Exchange, Positive Feedback Loops, and Emergent Properties
01:03:33 Social Networks are Bound by the Free Exchange of Information
01:06:44 Emergent Properties as the “Whines and Squeals” of Amplified Positive Feedback Loops
01:10:10 Positive Feedback Loops and the Amplification of Ideas
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