Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Energy Complexity Spira
"I don't so much believe in free will, but I do believe in free won't," he says. "You can use your intelligence and neocortex to make plans that ahead of time will trump your limbic mammalian emotional response in the moment." In a book with Tadpatsik called drilling down, you describe something called the energy complexity spiral. Can you explain what that is? Well, yes, they have to grow together on the rare occasions when humans have had little bits of surplus energy. On those occasions, complexity has grown because of having surplus energy, but then becoming more complex requires still more energySo that they spiral together energy and complexity spiral together as one increases the other
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