Episode
Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere
COMPLEXITY · Dec 22, 2022 · 1 h 13 min
What does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables call for different strategies in individual and collective cognition — what defines the threshold at which so-called “solid” brains transition into “liquids”? And how might we apply these and related lessons from ecology and evolution to help steward a diverse…