Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Non-Reducible Character of Reality
Dyson: The infinite diversity of the natural world is analogous to the freedom of the mind itself, because thinking is itself an infinitely self-developing bottom up activity. I think it's a very fresh view of evolution. Motokimura was a Japanese evolutionist who studied evolution and he wrote a book called The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution. Osela made what I think is a crucial discovery which she was not able to publish because it goes against the dogma. If you don't take big risks, you don't evolve. And nature knows that. So nature is playing the odds. We can always find it later.
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