My first exposure to the concept of emergence — the phenomenon of a given system containing features that cannot straightforwardly be attributed to its constituent parts — as an object of intellectual interest came in the form of Douglas Hofstadter’s classic Godel, Escher, Bach, which I read around seven years ago. Hofstadter’s book does not…

Sean Carroll has been instrumental in sparking (and keeping aflame) my my interest in physics. He’s an accomplished academic, but he does a ton of writing and lecturing for the layman. He’s also one of the few serious scientists who takes philosophy seriously and considers the philosophical implications of his work. I was first introduced…

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