Self-Organized Criticality and the Brain's Pursuit of Efficiency

Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch.

Find Brett:

https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersen

Mentioned in the show:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

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