21. Chaos and Reductionism

Why it was recommended

acknowledging irreducible complexity irrespective of scale as he did so clearly in one of his Stanford lectures

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What it covers

Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on chaos and reductionism, which he calls one of the hardest of the course. It examines the limits of breaking systems into parts to. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

Stanford

Length

1 hr 37 min

Year

2011

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