Guests:

Ricard Solé, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Head of the Complex Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Sara Walker, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Associate Director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

Other music: Matucha, Kijjaz, Klankbeeld, Aesterial-Arts, Dijifishmusic, Greenvwbeetle, Odilon Marcenaro, Jobro, Benboncan, Bone666138, Aiwha, Josh Berry, Rubenvvuuren, and Miksmusic

SFI programs:

Complexity Explorer: Origins of Life
Education

Books & Films:

Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, based on book by Mary Shelley
The Computer and the Brain, by John von Neumann
Signs of life: How complexity pervades biology by Ricard V. Solé and Brian C. Goodwin

Talks:

Liquid and Solid Brains: Mapping the Cognition Space by Ricard Solé
Evolving Brains: Solid, Liquid and Synthetic by Ricard Solé
A Universal Theory of Life: Math, Art & Information by Sara Walker

Papers & Articles:

“Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution” in Nature (October 4, 2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06600-9
“Time is an object” in Aeon, May 19, 2023
“The Algorithmic Origins of Life” in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (February 6, 2013) doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0869
“Evolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads Not Taken” in Entropy (May 9, 2022), doi.org/10.3390/e24050665
“Unicellular–multicellular evolutionary branching driven by resource limitations” (June 2, 2022) doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0018

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Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?

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