Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

2

What Motivated You to Become a Scientist?

03:39 • 2min

3

The Difference Between Biology and Physics

05:20 • 5min

4

The Importance of Convergence and Evolutionary Processes

10:26 • 4min

5

The Evolution of Humanity and the Evolution of the Human Brain

14:17 • 3min

6

The Transition Into Multi-Cellularity in Yeasts

17:45 • 3min

7

Parasites Are Inevitable

20:56 • 2min

8

Ecological Networks and Their Frailty

22:36 • 4min

9

Compartments in Ecological Networks

26:15 • 2min

10

The Small World of Human Language

28:14 • 5min

11

The Rich Get Richer in the Real Economy

33:00 • 4min

12

The Concept of Criticality and the Phase Transition Between Liquid and Solid Brains

37:28 • 3min

13

Is Complexity a Driving Principle for Complexity?

40:42 • 5min

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Is There an Inherent Obstacle to That in Evolution?

45:25 • 4min

15

Is It Possible to Have a Third State Cognitive Architecture?

48:58 • 5min

16

Ecological Firewalls for Synthetic Biology

53:42 • 6min

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Are We Really Responsible for the Extinction of the Network?

59:38 • 2min

18

Ecological Firewall

01:01:49 • 2min

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Biofilms in the Future?

01:03:50 • 4min

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Is There a Way to Induce Ecological Firewalls?

01:07:25 • 4min

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Complexity - A Call to Arms

01:11:04 • 2min