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Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics

COMPLEXITY

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Compose Mus

Sally Kohn: Composers build in signals into their music as a way of communicating to the listener that something is about to approach. She says we may have evolved to be sensitive to this kind of loss of resilience in a system before an exciting, critical transition. Kohn: We can ask whether musicians do the same thing, or story tellers or mathematicians. There's a similar trade off that the ant colony needs to make between exploiting where it is and exploring somewhere else.

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