Jessica Flack - Finding the right questions, the wisdom of complexity, and deep physical and cognitive fitness

Dr. and professor Jessica Flack has been a dream guest for Origins since the beginning - the kind of generous intellect and polymath whose words and work expand everyone around her. She also might be the person we can place our trust in to help us learn how to make sense of an increasingly complex world.

Show Notes:

Josh Epstein - agent-based modeling (04:20)The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and complex systems thinking (07:30)Mark Newman and network scienceMurray Gell-MannThe Synergism Hypothesis by Peter A. Corning (14:00)The Biology of Moral Systems by Richard D. Alexander (16:00)Indirect reciprocityCollective Computation Group (C4) (19:20)Coarse-grainingHow do everyone's coarse-graining converge?Jim CrutchfieldJohn Hopfield (23:30)Studying social dynamics in macaque societies (29:40)People in her close network (37:00)Rob BoydDave BaconDavid KrakauerJohn BaezNihat AyPhysical fitness (41:00)The Sports Gene by David EpsteinScale by Geoffrey West (41:20)Morning routine (47:00)Lightning round (49:00)Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Jorge Luis BorgesPassion: Cooking and Walter Fontana "Functional self-organization in complex systems"Heart sing: SurfingScrewed up: Mathematical skills trainingFind Jessica online:WebsiteTwitter: @C4COMPUTATIONInstagram: jcflack1'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Jessica’s playlist