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David KRAKAUER
Perspectives: The Complexity of Life

DIRECTOR, WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR DISCOVERY,
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON CO-DIRECTOR,
CENTER FOR COMPLEXITY & COLLECTIVE COMPUTATION,
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR DISCOVERY,
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON EXTERNAL PROFESSOR,
SANTA FE INSTITUTE

 

THE CLASSICAL UNIVERSE is made up brick by brick, starting in the void and culminating with the earth: from the emptiness of night that gave rise to day, to the day that produces the outward order of the heavens, and finally to life upon the ground. The Theogony is a story describing the origins of energy and matter and information in the form of life. The Theogony exemplifies humanity’s great surprise that the universe should have emerged from chaos, that emptiness has not reigned eternal, and that the earth should be hospitable and supportive of multiform sentience.

After almost three millennia our concerns are essentially the same as those of this celebrated Greek farmer and poet. In just less than 14 billion years, the universe has generated, from nothing, more than 100 billion galaxies, each of which contains on average 100 billion stars, and around many of these stars a system of planets. In our own Milky Way, tucked away in a local bubble of the Orion-Cygnus arm of the galaxy, 27,000 light years from the galactic center, spins our solar system, home to eight planets – four small and dense, and four large and gaseous. On one of these planets, the third nearest the sun, we find life. To the best of our knowledge, it is the only planet in our solar system supporting adaptive matter.



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