Complexity Grows When Integration Turns History Into Structure
About this episode
The episode explores how complexity is defined by historical construction through assembly theory.
Complexity is easy to admire and hard to explain. A protein, a living cell, a piece of technology, even a culture can be described by structure, matter, energy, or information, but that still misses the most revealing feature: each one carries a history of successful construction. We dig into assembly theory and its core idea that complex things embody “how they got built,” captured by the assembly index as a measure of historical depth. Then we push on the question assembly theory leaves ha...
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Host: Arshak Benlian
Topics covered
- complexity
- assembly theory
- historical depth
- integration
- structure
- construction
Keywords
- complexity
- assembly theory
- historical depth
- integration
- structure
- construction
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: assembly theory
Books & works: Complexity Grows When Integration Turns History Into Structure
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