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

COMPLEXITY

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The Complexity of Intelligence

The evolution of intelligence it's a Copernican revolution right where we're no longer at the top of a divinely ordained taxonomy of being. We are at some point along an ongoing open-ended process by which intelligence constantly bootstraps itself because of these competitive dynamics between agents that are trying to infer one another's behaviors you know so that's why I really loved. Yeah so we're back to that red queen arms race kind of situation here right like I love this as an undergraduate. This gets back to a direct address of the question that I had as an undergraduate which is where is all of this complexity coming from right the complexity out of simplicity thing?

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