Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space
Description: Jim continues his discussion with Matthew Pirkowski on ideas of emergence and how they can be applied to today's meta-crisis...
Jim continues his discussion with Matthew Pirkowski on ideas of emergence and how they can be applied to today's meta-crisis. They discuss the meaning of emergence, treating potential as ontologically real, exaptation & meta-adaptation, path dependency in the history of science, the naivety of closed systems, the apparent tension between energy efficiency & energy production, how GameA status signaling limits solution space, slack in metabolism & civilization, how greater energy inputs could synchronize with regenerative agriculture, carbon tax as a signal, the infosphere s...