In this 5th episode of the first season of FutureXplorations, Dr. Gershenson and I talk about:
- What is complexity, what makes a system complex?
- Interaction and emergence
- Why the success of reductionism?
- How computation gave us the power to study complexity
- How ancient Greek philosophy and Buddhism deal with change
- Change in lower and higher scales in systems
- Aristotle’s view on emergence, and Dr. Gershenson’s definition
- Upwards or downwards emergence
- How social norms are properties of the collective and how they influence individual behaviours
- Scales in complexity
- Downward causation, behaviour at higher scale that can cause behaviour at a lower scale
- Work, effort, value and monetary value
- System’s dynamics, robustness and adaptation
- Increased complexity in life and how plan for the long term
- What is self-organisation?
- Physical limits, physical boundaries and extended mind theory
- What is autopoiesis?
- Control and efficiency in distributed decentralised and centralised systems
