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COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)

COMPLEXITY

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The Model Thinker

SFI external professor Scott Page and his book, The Model Thinker. It seems like a kind of adaptation to the information explosion that we were talking about earlier in this call. In some sense, what we do when we build mathematical models or models of any kind is make analogies. If you look at the early theories of the solar system and the cosmos, they were based on clocks; mechanical devices were used to model the motions of the planets.

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