how does information and thermal entropy relate? George Gilder Cesar Hidalgo Claude Shannon Boltzmann Kevin Kelly
what is wrong with “spontaneous order”? WHat does it matter that the universe is increasing in entropy? Or our world is increasing in order? What are these people really talking about?
Gilder mentions the need for stable channel for a surprising (high-entropy) signal Hidalgo
I still think Taleb’s idea that we have different forms of government at different scales is important. My bodty has different degrees of freedom depending on context ion the overall structure (my knee has one degree of freedom which allows my ankle and hip to have way more)
Art is defined by the boundaries, so is play. CHoosing boundaries seems to be the act of creation itself. Some things in the universe seem self-similar, fractal. Others DO vary with scale.or maybe there are just regimes of scales within which things are self-similar.
one example is one person’s mind (however multiple that may be) is NOT similar to the psychology of a crowd. See Jesus, Kierkegaard, We have examples of both the wisdom and madness of crowds. Cannot foerget something about the defaulty mode network being social.
Can all of our psychology be explained by evolutionary biology?