Can a Field in Which Physicists Think Like Economists Help Us Achieve Universal Knowledge?

Bookmarked Can a Field in Which Physicists Think Like Economists Help Us Achieve Universal Knowledge? by David Auerbach (Slate Magazine)
The Theory of Everything and Then Some: In complexity theory, physicists try to understand economics while sociologists think like biologists. Can they bring us any closer to universal knowledge?

A discussion of complexity and complexity theorist John H. Miller’s new book: A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society.

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  2. Read Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” (The Los Angeles Review of Books)

    A review of Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem by David Auerbach from the Los Angeles Review of Books.

    Summa Technologiae
    AT LAST WE have it in English. Summa Technologiae, originally published in Polish in 1964, is the cornerstone of Stanislaw Lem’s oeuvre, his consummate work of speculative nonfiction. Trained in medicine and biology, Lem synthesizes the current science of the day in ways far ahead of most science fiction of the time.
    His subjects, among others, include:

    Virtual reality
    Artificial intelligence
    Nanotechnology and biotechnology
    Evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology
    Artificial life
    Information theory
    Entropy and thermodynamics
    Complexity theory, probability, and chaos
    Population and ecological catastrophe
    The “singularity” and “transhumanism”

    Source: Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” – The Los Angeles Review of Books
    I came across this book review quite serendipitously today via an Auerbach article in Slate, which I’ve bookmarked. I found a copy of the book and have added it to the top of my reading pile. As I’m currently reading an advance reader edition of Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture, I can only imagine how well the two may go together despite being written nearly 60 years apart.

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