Senator Tan: Your book is pushing what I would call the materialist or reductions to approach that is implicit in science. But one of the challenges of the philosophical, excuse me, of the materialist and reductionist approach is a loss of mystery," he says. "I strongly reject the view that not understanding things makes them more wonderful than understanding them", Senator Tan adds.
Matt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of Everything. Ridley applies the lens of emergent order to a wide variety of phenomena including culture, morality, religion, commerce, innovation, and consciousness.