Episode
Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
COMPLEXITY · Jul 18, 2022 · 1 h 15 min
Ask any martial artist: It’s not just where a person strikes you but your stance that matters. The amplitude and angle of a blow is one thing but how you can absorb and/or deflect it makes the difference. The same is true in any evolutionary system. Most people seem to know “the butterfly effect” where tiny changes lead to large results, but the inverse also works: complex organisms buffer their…