Neil Theise (on Complexity Theory)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Neil Theise (Notes on Complexity) is a diagnostic pathologist, stem cell biologist, and complexity theorist. Neil joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the principles of complexity theory, the way it works at different levels of scale, and how it differs from chaos theory. Neil and Dax talk about emergent self-organization, how randomness encourages change, and negative feedback loops. Neil explains the importance of your microbiome, how the universe is an endless unfolding range of possibilities, and how he learned to fear a lot less. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on experts. I love today's yes. Me too. Yes.
0:07.2	Big ding ding ding ding ding not a duck duck goose. I don't know I say it I don't know it was five six whatever very small
0:15.8	amount of people we've interviewed yeah who seem to be able to see the entire world
0:20.3	and all of its complexity in one view.
0:23.0	Very big picture and mind-blowing a little bit.
0:26.6	Yes, I again, I found myself trying to relay what he had taught us
0:31.8	in a social setting.
0:34.0	It's a challenge.
0:35.0	Yes.
0:36.0	It's really worth listening.
0:37.5	It's a very specific way of looking at the world that does encompass so many different singular ways of looking at the world.
0:46.0	Yes and then combined into something approaching spiritual spirituality.
0:51.0	That was very cool.
0:52.0	Neil These is a diagnostic pathologist and stem cell biologist.
0:58.0	He is also a long time student of Zen Buddhism.
1:01.0	He also knows almost everything you can know about
1:03.8	self-organizing complex systems. He knows as much as you can about physics. He has a
1:09.1	book out now called Notes on Complexity,
1:13.3	The Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness,
1:16.4	and Beam.
1:17.4	It's such a cool point of view he lays out.
1:20.2	Really, really thrilling.
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