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Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning

COMPLEXITY

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Limits, Scaling Laws, and Evolutionary Constraints

This chapter explores the limits imposed on evolutionary processes by thermodynamics, scaling laws, and developmental constraints. It discusses the emergence of social insect colonies as a phase transition in computation and examines the invisible limits to growth in human civilization and the biosphere.

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