Tag: Santa Fe Institute
Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity
It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic.
Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory
When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight.
“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”
In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89.
Conservation of Information — The Idea
Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef.
Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?
One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism.