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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

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The Scales of Selfhood

SFI: I thought it was interesting how you say, for instance, when we're getting back to where we started this conversation, talking about an inherent pluralism to the approach of modeling the world. You mentioned in scales, and we've talked about this on the show that a field like socio physics works because if you back away far enough from people, then you can model people as though they are just molecules. And then later, as this pertains to the issue of selfhood, at any scale, except at the highest, we will be leaving something out of a description. The highest scale is not always practical. We need to make distinctions to take distinctions. SFI: If

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