Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Everyday Life with Neil Theise, M.D.

MP3 Download Theise writes, “Generalizations about how we are all ‘one with the universe’ are so common these days as to be trite." Using the observations of an ant colony led to the discovery of the importance of “quenched disorder.” Which means a few of the ants get off the beaten path and by doing so, they are instrumental in the survival of the colony. Theise describes the importance of this random act, “If you have no randomness, then there's no way for the system to change how it's responding if the environment changes, such as if the sugar cube is used up. When that sugar cube is used up, some ant in the colony has to be finding another sugar cube. It's going to be those ants that aren't following the line that are likely to bump into something…It's this limited randomness that's really key that all complex systems share, whether we're talking about humans and human society, ants in an ant colony, cells in a body, there's got to be a limited range of randomness”. This randomness