It is as if Kauffman will win us over by ‘ argumentum per iteratio ’. I will not count the number of times he repeats the title of his book in his new book, but trust me, it’s a lot (OK, twice in the ...

Turning points in my intellectual life have never been welcome; I always seem to resist them until forced to do otherwise. One such passage occurred some 10 years ago, as I was walking one spring ...

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At the outset, I wish to state I am a big fan of philosopher Stuart Kauffman, who is a complexity, biology, and evolutionary origins theorist, and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, an independent ...