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

COMPLEXITY

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The Treadmill Red Queen Dynamics of Successive Inventions

Jeffrey Sachs: Can we come up with a principled way of understanding complexity science for sustainability? He talks about how a typical human being now lives significantly longer than the time between major innovations. There's this if you like methodological bottleneck that makes invention a hard problem for theory even though it feels kind of self-evident in everyday life, he says. We're finally at the place in your book where you raise the issue of growing so fast that we collapse seems to be partly informational and partly metabolic - Sachs.

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