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Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Nov 18, 2024Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are driven toward increased "fitness," a measure of how suc...
Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Nov 11, 2024Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of higher-level emergent properties helps render the world intelligible to us -- we can sensibly understand ...
AMA | November 2024
Nov 04, 2024Welcome to the November 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Pa...
Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Oct 28, 2024Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it "goes on doing something... for a much longer period than we would expect an inanimate piece of matter to keep going under s...
Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
Oct 21, 2024A large economy is one of the best examples we have of complex dynamics. There are multiple components arranged in complicated overlapping hierarchies, out-of-equilibrium dynamics, nonlinear coupling ...
Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
Oct 14, 2024It's not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start saying that it is wrong to cause pain to something? This question has less to do with "consciousness" and more ...
AMA | October 2024
Oct 07, 2024Welcome to the October 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Pat...
Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Sep 30, 2024Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it. That effort requires that we have some reasonable understanding of why aging happens, and what proc...
Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
Sep 23, 2024It's a wonder democracy works at all -- a collection of people with potentially different interests have to agree to abide by majority vote even when it goes against their desires. But as we know, it ...
Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
Sep 16, 2024As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson and measuring multiple features of particle-physics interactio...