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What can physics tell us about ourselves?

What can physics tell us about ourselves?

Update: 2024-01-31
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Guests: 

  • Vijay Balasubramanian, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Geoffrey West, Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music: Mitch Mignano

Other Music: Blue Dot Sessions, Pink House Music, Eardeer, and Craig Smith.

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SFI programs: 

Books & Stories: 

  • Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum
  • Scale by Geoffrey West
  • “Funes, the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges

Talks: 

Papers: 

  • “Brain Power” in PNAS (August 2, 2021) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.210702211
  • “The Physical Effects of Learning” preprint published in biorxiv
  • “Unraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development” in Science Advances (September 18, 2020) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0398
  • “The Scales That Limit: The Physical Boundaries of Evolution” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (August 7, 2019) doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00242
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What can physics tell us about ourselves?

What can physics tell us about ourselves?

Vijay Balasubramanian, Geoffrey West, Abha Eli Phoboo, Chris Kempes