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33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are There, or Should We Hope to Find, Laws of Complex Systems?

I don't think we're going to have something like, you know, a law of all complex systems. No, I don't think that doesn't make a lot of sense,. Well, we had our symposium that brought us here. We talked about the notion of fundamentality, which is sort of on the opposite side of complexity in some sense, maybe. So there's some robustness that extends across possible worlds we could live in. Could there be Darwin-like behavior? In answer to that, yes, there could be.

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