Tag: Santa Fe Institute
#10 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists
It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones.
Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists
It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones.
Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?
Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics.
Living Fossils, Ancient Oxygen, Colorful Snapdragons: Anomalies Challenge Darwin’s Story
Enough anomalies can wreck a paradigm.
Is Information the Basis for the Universe?
Information, understood as formal and final cause, is what makes nature real.