No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere

PIRSA ID: 19100055
Series: Quantum Gravity
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Gravity
End date:
Speaker(s):
  • Stuart Kauffman, Santa Fe Institute (SFI)

Biological evolution is a complex blend of ever changing structural stability, variability and emergence of new phenotypes, niches, ecosystems. We wish to argue that the evolution of life marks the end of a physics world view of law entailed dynamics.