David Krakauer reflects on the foundations and future of complexity science

In this episode, Paul Middlebrooks asks David Krakauer, president of the Santa Fe Institute, how complexity scientists approach the complex systems they study. Guided by Krakauer’s book “The Complex World: An Introduction to the Foundations of Complexity Science,” they discuss the historical foundations of complexity science over the past 100 years. Krakauer highlights how these principles, which continue to shape how modern complexity science integrates ideas across multiple scientific disciplines, may help us understand what may be the most complex system we know of—the brain.

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