Episode
Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)
COMPLEXITY · Dec 10, 2022 · 1 h 18 min
In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to their smallest components does not allow researchers to predict the behaviors of those systems upon reconstruction. Another way of putting this is that different disciplines reveal different truths at different scales. Contrary to long-held convictions that…
