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Miles@baruch Magical thinking? If the alternative is dualism, a physical world and a spiritual world, a body and a soul, I'll take emergent properties in a single unitary world any day. 🙂
I think an emergent properties model is far less magical than what seems to be the alternative view.
The cool thing about neural network models, llms and the like, is that they DO add up to more than the sum of their parts, and they DO begin to do things that cannot be fully explained by all of their parts. They have emergence. And it's early days.
That's not the issue with these weather models, but we've gone further afield now. And who knows whether a weather model with historical data and massive specific data might not begin to have insights, not just predictions, but insights and thoughts, about the domain that at first we thought we had merely invited it to model and predict? I don't think I'm being "magical" about that.
nonlinearbroken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.
If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.
*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
Listen to this episode from Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas on Spotify. Complexity scientists have been able to make an impressive amount of progress despite the fact that there is not universal agreement about what "complexity" actually is. We know it when we see it, perhaps, but there are a number of aspects to the phenomenon, and different researchers will naturally focus on their favorites. Today's guest, David Krakauer, is president of the Santa Fe Institute and a longtime researcher in complexity. He points the finger at the concept of agency. A ball rolling down a hill just mindlessly obeys equations of motion, but a complex system gathers information and uses it to adapt. We talk about what that means and how to think about the current state of complexity science.Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/10/242-david-krakauer-on-complexity-agency-and-information/Support Mindscape on Patreon.David Krakauer received his D.Phil. in evolutionary biology from Oxford University. He is currently President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. Previously he was at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he was the founding director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation. He was included in Wired magazine's list of "50 People Who Will Change the World."Web siteSanta Fe Institute web pageWikipediaGoogle ScholarSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.