Episode 08: Emergence and the limits of understandability

Summary:

There is no economic collapse in a dollar bill, no hurricane in a rain drop, no love in a carbon atom. How far can we go to understand the emergence of qualitatively different properties as we move up through the scales of everything?

Date:

2016/09/22

Duration:

1:12:56

2016/09/22

1:12:56

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Extra:

Prelude: The Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar and an interesting appearance of the Simon-Mandelbrot letter feud.


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