Professor Stuart Kauffman is one of the most distinguished scholars of complexity and the author of several acclaimed books, including The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution (1993), At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1995), and Humanity in a Creative Universe (2016).

In this Sydney Ideas talk, he proposes that the ever-changing phase space of evolution means we can write no laws of motion for evolution, and it is thus not reducible to physics. The evolving biosphere is the most complex system we know in the universe.

Presented by Sydney Ideas on 1 March 2017. See the webpage for more about this lecture and to access the lecture slides:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/professor_stuart_kauffman.shtml