In which David Krakauer rights the wrongs of early complexity science, particularly the Waddington adaptive landscape which yields adaptation as action. Adaptation, Krakauer says, is an internal encoding of the world (map, model, etc.), i.e. teleonomic matter. Another exciting interview by @seanmcarroll

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/10/242-david-krakauer-on-complexity-agency-and-information/

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David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility

In this episode, we talk with SFI President David Krakauer about the goals of this research theme and what SFI brings to the table. We discuss the legacy of long-standing challenges to quantitative history and mathematical economics, how SFI thinks differently about these topics, and a brief outline of the major angles we’ll explore in this sub-series over the next year-plus — including the roles of dimension, causality, algorithms, scaling, innovation, emergence, and more.

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https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82

Transcript: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82/transcript

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SFI's Complexity is among my favourite podcasts. This episode, and the series it fronts, are a look into a revising of theories of political economy --- a domain which to date has been frustrating and problematic.

Strongly recommended.

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