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The Universal Laws of Life | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 1 (WiM144)

Mar 1, 2022

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Defining Life

Defining life is complex, with characteristics like metabolism, reproduction, and adaptability.
Cities and companies exhibit life-like properties, blurring the lines between living and non-living.

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Life and Entropy

Life, as an open system, imports energy and exports entropy (disorder).
Entropy is like useless energy, a byproduct of creating order, and is everywhere.

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Entropy and Energy Sources

Entropy increases in closed systems; Earth became functionally closed with fossil fuels.
Shifting to renewable energy returns us closer to an open system, minimizing entropy.

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Is There a General Law of Life?

05:41 • 4min

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Is There a Relationship Between a Complex Adaptive System and Logic?

09:58 • 2min

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The Relationship Between Life and Intropy

Keeping You Alive Through an Oxidative Respiration

17:21 • 4min

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The Relationship Between Intropy and Uncertainty

21:10 • 5min

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Open Versus Closes System?

26:10 • 2min

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The Transition From Agriculture to Industrial Age

28:34 • 1min

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The Acceleration of Time

30:04 • 3min

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Is It Part of Our Success?

32:44 • 2min

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Bit Coin - The Most Important Asset in the 20 First Century

34:38 • 3min

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The Question of Scale

38:02 • 3min

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How Much Energy Do You Need to Stay Alive?

40:50 • 4min

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What's Amazing About Logarithms

44:36 • 2min

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The Total Number of Heart Beats Is Roughly the Same Across All Animals

46:30 • 4min

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How Do Scaling Laws Relate to Natural Selection?

50:03 • 3min

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The Scaling Principles of the Network

52:52 • 3min

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Is There a Scaling Law?

The Four Dimensions of the Fractle

01:01:44 • 3min

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Ivy Grows on a Two Dimensional Surface

01:04:42 • 5min

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Is There a Lot of Crinkled Blood Vascular System?

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Is the Fractile Structure Meant to Economize?

01:11:33 • 6min

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Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies."

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Where is the Line Dividing Living and Nonliving?
00:05:40 Are there General Laws Governing Living Systems?
00:09:56 The Opaque Logic of Complex Adaptive Systems
00:12:22 Life as an Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy
00:17:20 Organic System Wear and Tear: Entropy and ATP
00:21:21 Maxwell’s Demon, Uncertainty, and Entropy
00:25:41 Understanding Thermodynamics: Open Systems vs. Closed Systems
00:28:35 Entropy in the Shift from The Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age
00:31:13 Astronomical Time as Compared with Social Time
00:34:44 NYDIG
00:35:52 Superlinear Scaling is Why Godzilla Isn’t Real…
00:40:03 Universal Scaling Laws: Savings Percolating Beyond Biology
00:44:37 On Average, All Organisms Have the Same Number of Heartbeats
00:48:30 How Can it Be That All Life Obeys Universal Scaling Laws?
00:53:00 The Fundamental Assumptions of Network Scaling Laws
00:56:55 Fractals: The Geometry of Nature
01:00:55 A Poetic Description of the Fractal Dimension…
01:05:56 Using Laundry to Describe Dimensionality
01:10:32 Spherical and Fractal Geometry in Regard to Exchange

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