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Far-reaching conversations with a worldwide network of scientists and mathematicians, philosophers and artists developing new frameworks to explain our universe's deepest mysteries. Join hos...
Guest: Melanie Mitchell, Resident Professor, Santa Fe Institute Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: M...
Guests: Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Co...
Guests: Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychological and B...
Guests: Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, De...
Guests: Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain R...
Guests: Alison Gopnik, SFI External Faculty; Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berk...
Right now, AI is having a moment — and it’s not the first time grand predictions about the potential of machines are being made. But, what d...
Guests: Heather Graham, Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Mon...
Guests: David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute Sean Carroll, External Profes...
Guests: Melanie Moses, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology at Uni...
Guests: Brian Enquist, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona...
Guests: Ricard Solé , External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Head of the Complex Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Sara Walker...
Guests: Vijay Balasubramanian , External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of...
Trailer for Complexity: Physics of Life, from the Santa Fe Institute
Episode Title and Show Notes: 106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park Welcome to Complexity, th...
One way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links — relationships that grow and break in...
For centuries, Medieval life in Europe meant a world determined and prescribed by church and royalty. The social sphere was very much a pyra...
How do we get a handle on complex systems thinking? What are the implications of this science for philosophy, and where does philosophical t...
And now for something completely different! Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, ce...
There are maps, and there are territories, and humans frequently confuse the two. No matter how insistently this point has been made by cogn...
This is a podcast by and for the curious — and yet, in over three years, we have pointed curiosity at nearly every topic but itself. What is...
Humans have an unusually long childhood — and an unusually long elderhood past the age of reproductive activity. Why do we spend so much tim...
What does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables ca...
In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to t...
What makes us human? Over the last several decades, the once-vast island of human exceptionalism has lost significant ground to wave upon wa...
The brain is arguably one of the most complex objects known to science. How best to understand it? That is a trick question: brains are orga...
Communication is a physical process. It’s common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes work…but how much work? The qu...
What does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no...
One way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena — a teasing-out of musi...
As the old nut goes, “To the victor goes the spoils.” But if each round of play consolidates the spoils into fewer hands, eventually it come...
Chances are you’re listening to this on an advanced computer that fits in your pocket, but is really just one tentacle tip of a giant, plane...
Human beings are distinctly weird. We live for a very long time after we stop reproducing, move completely differently than all of our close...
Ask any martial artist: It’s not just where a person strikes you but your stance that matters. The amplitude and angle of a blow is one thin...
What is life, and where does it come from? These are two of the deepest, most vexing, and persistent questions in science, and their endurin...
Math and music share their mystery and magic. Three notes, played together, make a chord whose properties could not be predicted from those...
We lead our lives largely unaware of the immense effort required to support them. All of us grew up inside the so-called “Grid” — actually o...
As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innova...
In the digital era, data is practically the air we breathe. So why does everybody treat it like a product to be hoarded and sold at profit?...
The world is unfair — but how much of that unfairness is inevitable, and how much is just contingency? After centuries of efforts to arrive...
Context is king: whether in language, ecology, culture, history, economics, or chemistry. One of the core teachings of complexity science is...
As fictional Santa Fe Institute chaos mathematician Ian Malcolm famously put it, “Life finds a way” — and this is perhaps nowhere better dem...
Autonomous vehicles hardly live up to their name. The goal of true “driverlessness” was originally hyped in the 1930s but keeps getting kick...
Irrespective of your values, if you’re listening to this, you live in a pecking order. Dominance hierarchies, as they’re called by animal be...
As a careful study of the world, science is reflective and reactive — it constrains our flights of fancy, anchors us in hard-won fact. By co...
COVID has exposed and possibly amplified the polarization of society. What can we learn from taking a multiscale approach to crisis response...
Some people say we’re all in the same boat; others say no, but we’re all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of...
If you’re honest with yourself, you’re likely asking of the last two years: What happened? The COVID-19 pandemic is a prism through which ou...
Democracy is a quintessential complex system: citizens’ decisions shape each other’s in nonlinear and often unpredictable ways; the emergent...
What makes a satisfying explanation? Understanding and prediction are two different goals at odds with one another — think fundamental physi...
Where does cultural innovation come from? Histories often simplify the complex, shared work of creation into tales of Great Men and their vi...