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8 May 2006
Unknowability: Implications of Darwinian Preadaptions for Economic Growth and Policy
by Stuart A. Kauffman
Stunningly, Darwinian preadaptations imply that we cannot finitely prestate the evolution of the biosphere, nor can we prestate the future evoluition of technology, let alone history. In all cases, we literally do not know beforehand the relevant variables. The biosphere has dealt with this fundamental fact by the evolution of the very capacity to evolve and adapt. During this seminar, professor Kauffman will discuss these facts, and what we begin to know about the capacity to be able to adapt. The hints are that this capacity is maximized at a phase transition between order and chaos. This seminar will also attempt to extend these and recent work on agent based models to the arena of policy formulation.
Presentation documents will be available soon.
Stuart A. Kauffman is presently a professor at the University of Calgary with a joint appointment between biological sciences and physics and astronomy.
He is a theoretical biologist who studies the origin of life and the origins of molecular organization. He is a MacArthur Fellow and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Thirty-five years ago, he developed the Kauffman models, which are random networks exhibiting a kind of self-organization that he terms "order for free." Dr. Kauffman was the founding general partner and chief scientific officer of The Bios Group, a company (acquired in 2003 by NuTech Solutions) that applies the science of complexity to business management problems. He is the author of The Origins of Order, Investigations, and At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization.
Posted by Alexander Schellong at 11:01 AM