A new #ComplexityThougths short essay is out: this time I write about the ongoing debate around the Nature paper on assembly theory. The essay features comments by Sara Imari Walker, Ricard Solè and Hector Zenil, and it's an attempt to provide a balanced overview of what's going on.
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE. Talks from the Para Limes’ Illusion of Control conference are now online. I recommend the talks by Sander van der Leeuw (illusion of control), Terry Sejnowski (illusion of intelligence re AI), and especially Atsushi Iriki (cognitive roots of human’s innate illusion of control).