The Edge of Chaos

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Fractal geometry is the mathematics that embodies chaotic systems. To understand how water molecules line up in a nice cube, we need geometry. For explaining things like frost crystals and the structure of trees you needed to have fractal geometries. But when we say we couldn't know about it until computers, is it because the mathematical complexity was unknown? And is it basically saying there is a predictability to these things? There are no such things as 'futile' or 'inevitable', but they can be predicted by mathematicians.

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary collaborations in fields such as integrative medicine, consciousness studies, and science-religion dialogue.

Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise makes accessible this “theory of being,” one of the pillars of modern science, and its holistic view of human existence.

Learn more about Neil at neiltheiseofficial.com.

Neil's book, Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, is available now!