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 science
  • Murray Gell-Mann
• The Synergism Hypothesis by Peter A. Corning (14:00)
• The Biology of Moral Systems by Richard D. Alexander (16:00)
  • Indirect reciprocity
• Collective Computation Group (C4) (19:20)
  • Coarse-graining
  • How do everyone's coarse-graining converge?
  • Jim Crutchfield
• John Hopfield (23:30)
• Studying social dynamics in macaque societies (29:40)
• People in her close network (37:00)
  • Rob Boyd
  • Dave Bacon
  • David Krakauer
  • John Baez
  • Nihat Ay
• Physical fitness (41:00)
  • The Sports Gene by David Epstein
• Scale by Geoffrey West (41:20)
• Morning routine (47:00)
• Lightning round (49:00)
  • Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 
    • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Passion: Cooking and Walter Fontana "Functional self-organization in complex systems"
  • Heart sing: Surfing
  • Screwed up: Mathematical skills training
• Find Jessica online:
  • Website
  • Twitter: @C4COMPUTATION
  • Instagram: jcflack1
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Jessica’s playlist