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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The Human Brain Is More Complex Than the Sun

The origins of scientific paradigms as they emerged in the early scientific revolution were reductionistic. And there was that naive Newtonianism that we could predict everything and everything through its initial conditions. That is now recognized to not be the case at all. It turns out that an isolated system is a very artificial context to study something like energy. The second law of thermodynamics trying to always even things out and homogenize them, right? So it turns out that, for example, the whirlpool in your bathtub will form to dissipate that gradient because it's more efficient at creating entropy than just chaotic turbulence would be.

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