A quick thread on our @Nature paper on Assembly Theory. https://nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9... See more
A quick thread on our @Nature paper on Assembly Theory. https://nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9… 1/10 Assembly theory provides a new framework to understand selection and evolution that integrates physics and biology. It redefines objects not as particles but by their formation histories.
Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
this paper on collective intelligence by @drmichaellevin is one of the most mind-blowing things I've read in a while
it's full of examples of the under-appreciated intelligence of biological systems, with some deep perspective shifts on our understanding of ourselves
thread: https://t.co/7X6GO9eKYm