Welcome to the Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Interview Series

on Radio and Podcast, I'm Paul Vogel-Zang, and as part of our Smithsonian Associates

Art of Living Interview Series, we have an amazing interview with Smithsonian Associate Dr.

Neil Thies. Dr. Neil Thies' author of the excellent new book Notes on Complexity,

Connection, Consciousness, and Being. Dr. Neil Thies will be appearing at Smithsonian

Associates coming up, so please check out our website for more details about Smithsonian

Associate Dr. Neil Thies. And the title of Dr. Thies' presentation at Smithsonian

Associates is tied to his book Notes on Complexity, Connection, Consciousness, and Being.

Thank you so much for listening today. We have got a great guest today, whom I will

introduce in just a moment, but quickly, if you missed any episodes. Last week was our

711th episode, what I spoke to actor and star of the hit TV show Barry Henry Winkler.

Two weeks ago, Smithsonian Associate Chris Thurgood was on our show. I spoke to him about

his excellent new book Chasing Plants Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforest, Swamps,

and Mountains. Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience if you missed

those shows. Along with any others you can go back and check them out, along with my

entire catalog of shows all free for you there on our website, Not Old, Dashbetter.com.

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Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Dr. Neal Thies says that nothing in the universe

is more complex than life. Dr. Thies will tell us today that throughout the skies, in

oceans and across lands, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms, from cells

to human beings, social structures, and ecosystems life is open-ended, evolving and unpredictable

yet adaptive and self-sustaining, fascinating subjects today. Complexity theory from Dr. Thies's

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