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The danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
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I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
... See morePerhaps 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
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The challenge with this approach is that it’s very expensive, and it’s not clear how much the costs can come down.
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