The Complexity Of Life

[tonhogg1]

Sorry, I still think this narrators explanation is a big leap in explaining how everything came to be. He takes a chess game analogy and says, see, that's how it all happened. I know what he is saying but I still just don't buy it. There has to be something more at work here, and I'm not necessarily talking intelligent design either. I would say the scientist still have no clue, just theories with large leaps in them.

[mydogspet]

It was this kind of thinking that started my spiritual journey. From the sub-microscopic, to the Universe as a whole, so many "systems and laws" are in operation that defy the notion that existence is random. Random elements + time does not = anything. Abiogensis assumes that "time" itself is a force, when it is simply a relative constant. It's like rolling standard gambling dice and expecting that it will finally equal 1,378,089,098,233. It doesn't add up because you get more roles.

[imacoolkid613]

the white player in the chess game got owned.

[midgety1]

cool video

[MetalSpiral]

BABY DUCK

[mpandurov]

@MetalSpiral that is Goose not duck

[MetalSpiral]

@mpandurov The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

[kautilya33]

Today we think we can explain every thing in terms of quarks. It is just a matter of time before we will need subsubsub... quarks :)

[TheLovesoul1]

were did we really come from couldn't we have come from star dust.

[kekejojo1212]

@TheLovesoul1 ..Star dust? Wow......nnnno. Take a break from watching clumsy wipeout videos and read a book.

[TheLovesoul1]

@kekejojo1212 thanks actually i do read books alot and i write want do you do in your free time do you have any hobbys?

happy new year!

[HornyPedestrianXD]

You ever just stop and think?

[Xxd3cayxX]

I love these "Best0fScience" videos. The narrators voice is soothing.

[BibleBurnr]

I WANT MORE ON COMPLEXITY

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[DreamsofMajesty]

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[SlippPeace]

so i notice a single cell organism is incredibly complex, and i am supposed to account for it by how? randomly colliding molecules, will come to life and operate with purpose?

come on, now were just being silly

[Alexdurrant7]

@SlippPeace "it's complex, therefore god" is not a serious argument, even by youtube's standards.

[SlippPeace]

@Alexdurrant7 sorry, i guess, i haven't first "assumed there is no god", so when i see complexity i shall reject design, not because it isn't complex, but because it conflicts with my prior assumptions.

this is known as circular reasoning.

[Alexdurrant7]

@SlippPeace Well, no. God, in this case, is unnecessary addition that you have tagged on to the idea. The whole thing works entirely without God, so claiming that God is required to create complexity is dud.

[SlippPeace]

@Alexdurrant7 firstly the simplest lifeforms are far beyond anything man has ever made. i find it laughable that you have to reject obvious complexity, just to make your world view work.

[Alexdurrant7]

@SlippPeace Reject obvious complexity? When have I ever rejected complexity? I've stated that complexity doesn't require a god, but can instead be formed or evolved over billions of years. This doesn't look like a rejection of complexity to me...

[SlippPeace]

@Alexdurrant7 you probably believe that this video debunked complexity, by showing how rules of a game can exist in the mind, this was a complete failure.

[SuperSharko]

@SlippPeace @SlippPeace How did God get here he is very complex? Did he just exist so complex and organized with no purpose or reason? The laws of chemistry drove life and the law of natural selection created the illusion of purpose. The fact that you say something so complex and organize as God can just exist for no reason disproves your first premise before you get out of the gate. Complexity can exist with out a intelligent designer.

[gegilso]

people don't understand that the human body, and every other living thing on this planet is a machine. You have parts, those parts stop working, you die, the end. Sometimes if you're quick enough, you can get those parts running again. For example, if I lost all my blood in my body, my cells would start dying within minutes, but if my blood drained from my body and I was given new blood before the cell completely ran out of energy I would live. It's simple. We are complex yet very simple

[menolyrics]

Without complexity, there will be no beautiful women walking on the edge of earth!!

Aaaaaah, women! what a complex creature!!!

[StefanAxelWels]

Complexity between things in different levels from observer or user or used and level in whats being and whats to be. Electrons may aware of that some of them are in state of limbo same as us.

[StefanAxelWels]

Or photons in this circle of being. Awareness I will call it. Or even deception of awareness.

[lyue1996]

Those who believe in god are scared that science find more proofs, that God didn't make the world.

[SlippPeace]

@lyue1996 what like the tremendous fine tuning of the universe?

[flylike1]

"Computers, watches, and cars, do not come about by chance over billions of years."

Computers, watches, cars do not reproduce and evolve like living things do. Also, evolution is not a chance process. Natural Selection, by definition, is nonrandom.

[flylike1]

"Complexity stems from intelligence. The complexity of life, screams that there is an extremely intelligent God who created it all."

Argument from Complexity is a logical fallacy. Rainbows are complex- who creates those? Snowflakes are complex, who creates those?

"Complexity stems from intelligence"

Your god, being able to create everything that exists, must be pretty complex, too! By your logic, his complexity must stem from intelligence. Who/what created god?

[iwasborninyourbutt]

I think its funny how so many people on youtube are claim to be a genius about life.

[carterfamily8903]

Complexity stems from intelligence. The complexity of life, screams that there is an extremely intelligent God who created it all. Computers, watches, and cars, do not come about by chance over billions of years. They come about as they are designed by intelligent people, who were created in the image of THE CREATOR GOD.

[Truthiness231]

ROFL, that was the worst restatement of the "blind watchmaker" argument EVER. You blew the whole thing in your own post:

Watches and computers and cars are striking evidence that god DOESN'T exist. You wouldn't come across a watch or a car or a computer and think "Oh wow magic people must have made this out of nothing", but rather "oh wow this is the invention of man". So (by the skewed logic of this argument), god must not have just came from nothing, but is rather the product of man =P

Pwnd

[AcusticDave]

"Complexity" is subjective, simply a human concept as much as deities and their respective religions are, and is poorly used to described the happenings and states of the universe and all that is, especially by religious fundamentalists such as yourself.

Even though it may seem to us "complex", to itself, the universe simply "is".

Detach yourself from that selfish human mindset.

[carterfamily8903]

The selfish human mindset, is the one that denies there is no God, when there is no other logical explanation, for why things are the way they are. Complexity is not subjective, either something is complex, or it is not. The only thing subjective, is how much someone wants to ignore, as they look at complex things. There is no logical reason, why earth should arbitrarily, have everything necessary for life to exist, while no other planet even comes close.

[AcusticDave]

Your the opposite of what logic is. The selfish human mindset is the one that claims there to be a god that rules over everything because there is "no other" explanation for reason. There may not be a reason but that doesn't mean that a book wrote by sheep herders was correct. There is an explanation of nature. You have no proof that there is no life on other planets. In fact it is more likely there is life on other planets than there being a god who says we're his favorite creatures.

[carterfamily8903]

U have no proof that there is life on other planets. If evolution happened your life means nothing, & U R here 4 no reason. The only advantage if this were true is that U could live as evily as U wish with no consequence. If the Bible is true, which it is, Your primary purpose is to glorify God, everything U do has an impact on eternity, & after U die, U will either be in the presence of the One who created all things, & knows everything, or you will be separated from Him 4 forever.

[AcusticDave]

Really? I supply my own damn self with a reason, to create music and to produce. To leave my mark in the human world. That's the least I could say for you. Your so weak minded and fooled by consumerism that you trick your mind into thinking that there is a god just to justify your own existence. You are even so uneducated that you refuse to spell the word "You".

Fuck Christ, your lord and everything you and he stands for. Be gone with you sheep.

When you die, nothing happens. You stop working.

[carterfamily8903]

When we die, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. We can do it now, and be in His presence forever after we die, or we WILL do it after we die, just before being cast from His presence for forever. If evolution were right, which there isn't the slightest possibility of, one second after you died, your entire life would instantly be utterly meaningless to you, because you would no longer exist. The complexity of all things is proof of the existence of God.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 so I guess people with brown eyes and blue eyes, and blond hair and black skin, and different sizes, is just my imagination.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso Why would you think that. Every person on this planet, is a descendant of one man Adam, and his wife Eve. God made all nations of men of one blood. No human has ever been an ape, no ape has ever been a human, and no ape or human is halfway, or even a little of the way between the two.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 where did I mention anything about apes? but yes, you ARE right about that. Evolution has NEVER stated that humans have been apes, NEVER, that is a poor interpretation of an uneducated mind. Humans evolved from an ancestor to both monkeys and humans. But! not all monkeys are from our "local" ancestors. Like macaques, they are hardly related to us, compared to a Bonobo. if we evolved from "apes" then apes wouldn't exist. Also...

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ...I am white, my wife is chinese, I have green eyes, my wife has brown. My wife is pregnant, my son will have brown eyes. If was white and had blue eyes, there would be a good chance my son would have blue or green eyes. Now, if evolution doesn't exist, then Adam had to have all the genetic material of every human being on this planet to account for the variation, but if he had all of it, then so would we, so we would all look the same. So explain to me why my wife is Asian.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso Adam had half of all the genetic material of every human on this planet. His wife had the other half. Each child only got half of Adams genetic material to pass on to their children, and half of Eves genetic material to pass on. Each child recieved at least some different genes from Adam, and Eve, than each of the other children. People produce a variety of people, that does not mean people are related to chimps, dandelions, and snails.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 lol! no! Adam had all the genetic material because eve came from his genes. But I congradulate you, I quote you...."People produce a variety of people". That variety is mutation my friend. That mutation, is evolution through natural selection. You just explained evolution my friend, weather it's through gods power or not, you believe in evolution. You're just missing crucial parts.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso I do believe in what is called micro evolution, it is not only scientific, but also biblical. God said let them bring forth after their kind. However, dogs producing a variety of dogs, does not prove relationship with anything that is non dog.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 I knew this was coming....There is no such thing as micro or macro, they are indistinguishable from each other. I will give you a perfect example. You are saying that house cats, and lions are not related to each other. They are my friend. I will explain. All the cat families that are here today, came from a common ancestor. The cats spread out to other environments. Through "micro" evolution, they mutated, the environment dictated which mutations would survive. Slowly they...

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ...they changed. That while one changed a little in one area, the other changed in another way, they progressed and with each generation, they differed even more, the same way human race, like Asian and white and black. So if you take two very closely related cats like the lion and tiger which are very similar and pair them together, they are close enough in genetics to produce offspring, but their offspring cannot reproduce, this means that the genetics messes up a little...

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso gene pools set limits to how much change can happen. Real mutations, are always harmful, and never good. Dogs can produce a variety of dogs, but once their gene pool gets small enough, there is not as much variety. A wolf could breed with many other types of dogs and produce, quite a lot of variety. A toy poodle, will be far more limited, in the dogs it could breed with, or the varieties that could come from it. But either is only capable of producing dog types.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 "Real mutations, are always harmful, and never good." very untrue, but MOST are harmful. "But either is only capable of producing dog types." until they become something completely different if the environment calls for it. Sharks hardly have changed because they are perfect for the environment, species only change "dramatically" when the environment changes, otherwise, you'll just see small variations. Environment + isolation + reproduction+ time = evolution.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso Do you know any beneficial mutations? Micro evolution is scientific and even Biblical. I would call it variation within kinds. We see this all the time. We never see a kind become, or becoming a different kind though.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ok, this is my final statement on the topic, beneficial mutations? look around you, the variation within kinds that you speak of, is beneficial mutations, skin color, sizes, it's all beneficial for the environment that they lived in. The reason you haven't seen anything become another species is because you only live for about 80 years. This takes thousands to millions. Humanity may have witnessed this as a whole, but nothing seems to have changed in the last 200 years that ...

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ...we came across major scientific discoveries. In the future, our children will see, many millennia from now how we documented the species, they will see the environment change, and with that they will see the change in the species. This will awaken the world. We are all part of a very important time in history.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ps, humans will probably not change that much because we can forge our own environments now, but other species that are dependent on the environment, will continue to change as the environment does.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ... because they are too different. They don't mix as well as they used to. They were the same creature long ago, but now, they are not. That is what a species is, a separate gene pool. The only reason humans have not divided into completely different species is because we were not isolated long enough, we discovered how to cross waters. We were nomads, we went to war with each other and copulated. we mixed our genes, preventing us becoming like cats, we are more like dogs.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso There is no scientific proof for that, just speculation and belief. Evolutionists see kinds, and assume all kinds are related. Those who believe the Bible, realize that God made different kinds of animals, and each kind reproduces after its own kind. Speciation was designed into the kinds. The Bible says that God made all nations of men of one blood.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 and we are related to chimps, dandelions, and snails because we're made up of the same basic elements that all life has, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. These elements make structures, these structures are known as amino acids, these amino acids make proteins, these proteins make DNA/RNA how they are arranged determine the cells they make, which determine the species. many species carry similar cells and DNA. When DNA mutates.....i think you get it.

[carterfamily8903]

@gegilso Are airplanes, cars, rockets, and computers related? They share many of the same basic materials that they are made out of as well. Common elements, that work well for one thing, would be used by an intelligent designer to make other things as well.

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 as far as airplanes, cars, etc... they are in the true sense of the word "relate" are related. but, they are not life, they do not mutate, they do not have genes or self regulating cells, but we're coming close to that, nano technology. One day we might actually witness this. we have nano bots. we can mimic life with them, but the problem is their materials, they would not be good candidates for life. water is the key. machines and water don't mix. even a machine mutates though

[gegilso]

@carterfamily8903 ever have a computer error or a corrupt file? That's lost data from... man I don't have enough room to explain all this on youtube, if you want, you can shoot me an email. I am really enjoying this, and i'm not trying to fight you, I respect that you believe in god, I just don't think it's wise to make a statement without first fully understanding what you're talking about.

[menolyrics]

@AcusticDave : Oh really, well then prove me that there's nothing afther death with your science, guess what, you will never find it!!

[AcusticDave]

@menolyrics

Ok, here's how we conduct that experiment. I will use a large electro shock to stop your heart, therefore blood flow, for a couple minutes. Then I use a smaller electric shock to start your heart again, and then you can tell me what happened when you died.

Of course when people die, they just die, there's no reward for dying just as there is no reward for living. And no matter how hard you try your stupid book is never going to be the answer to any of life's problems, capish?

[gegilso]

@AcusticDave he'll probably retort by saying in a little girly voice "juuuust cause your blood stops, doesn't mean your deaaaad, you're soouull has to leaaaave your booody."

[gegilso]

@menolyrics we won't find it because it doesn't exist, lol

[rijkent55]

Many thanks for these amazing, educational, and well presented set of videos.

[taeyeonlover]

why are the DNA strands left-handed?

[kyagh]

Throw a coin, it lands on head, why did it land on head and not on tail? I think it was that the left handed little strand at the beginning of abiogenesis got lucky or had some property that helped it replicate itself, then since evolution works with heredity we all hereditated this left handedness.

[taeyeonlover]

no, I mean why would they use a left-handed form when the right-handed form is obviously the more common form of DNA

[birthnight]

weird - i think his voice is perfect. i love the way he talks :) these videos are absolutely fantastic. this is the new Cosmos!

[Skindoggiedog]

Can whoever writes this guy's scripts please omit the letter 'r' in all future monologues?

Otherwise, the clip's awesometown.

[EdgeRatedR007]

whats wrong with r?

[amandarandom89]

he can't say it ;)

Notice he keeps talking about the "floweh" and "pahts".

[WillSKB88]

Profound

[bushputz]

King fall down - go boom!

[eydos]

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts" - a great and accurate phenomenological observation. Nicolai Hartman a German philosopher developed a whole ontology of complex systems based on this concept of layered/leveled concept of reality, where each functional system, once it is a whole unit give rise to new sets of rules, rules that are emergent from the preceding systems but not directly caused by them. In this way the appearance of the radically new can be approached.

[4566685545651235]

chess is overratet

[practicalmagic9]

"you can't see the forest for the trees"...

but for me, more importantly, you truly helped me to feel less overwhelmed by the vids i have attempted to view.i am fascinated by the complexity, but i realize that i am probably not stupid for sensing to grasp the entire scope of biology might be a lifelong study.

[kwazi6]

Biology is so complex, only a higher being could possibly comprehend every reason for every why.

[neonsilkworm]

And why does there need to be a higher being to comprehend every reason for every why?

Doesn't sound necessary to me.

[kwazi6]

I mean like an E.T.

We are mere higher primates currently.

[Digeridude]

A monkey CAN'T EVOLVE from the Grand Canyon unless Jesus said so. Everybody knows that!

[neonsilkworm]

What a fantastic video. I love Project Cassiopeia.

[defect530]

I second that!

[devil238]

Some of the background noise can be distracting, but another great video with lots of informative content.

[Hereticbooks]

awesome as always....

[diogeneslaertius666]

Organic Life as Elementary Game Theory

quantum dualism, the inherent complexity and interrelatedness of all phenomena

perception conditions existence: GEB strange loops from superabundant datasets etc, holographic fractal, sacred geometry etc.

[Dazis4Real]

Cassiopeia Project Rules...

Again Another Quality Video To Bring Thought To Mind.

Even If The Outer Beauty Is Lost, Are The Inner Microscopic Realms Of The Building Blocks Of Life Also Not As Beautiful?

[maddawgqeiwfje]

at the beginning of the video i was like "what about the ecologist!"

but the chess metaphor at the end summed it up pretty well

[CigarStudLasVegas]

anyone interested should look at emerging behaviour

[vince19811981]

great vid! like always, listening to intelligence is great!

[trvrbball]

great vid. am really interested in your videos about atoms and space, also time and it's theories.

[superextremelaser]

when the flower first starts to open it kinda looks like one of those sandworms from 'dune'

[teru382]

It is going too far. We have to look upon the whole planet as a unity. Plants (flowers) are organic living tissue of the Earth. The presence of brains is necessary for every living thing. Otherwise, they are organic living tissue. A microscope is not for used for MANIFYING a problem. The process that species on the Earth GROW from a simple to more complex forms of lives is the GROWTH (EVOLUTION) of the planet itself. Living organisms belongs to the Earth. The ORIGIN is exactly here.

Teru Wong

[Finkeren]

"Plants (flowers) are organic living tissue of the Earth. " - Say what? That didn't make any sense.

" The presence of brains is necessary for every living thing." - What? No it isn't! The large majority of all organisms have no central nerveous system at all.

"The process that species on the Earth GROW from a simple to more complex forms of lives is the GROWTH (EVOLUTION) of the planet itself." - Nope the earth would get by just fine without life. Evolution is not "growth".

[teru382]

Have you seen a living organism in space outside of the Space Station? A large majority of (all) organisms have no central nerveous system (at all) on the Earth.

Oh my God. Scientists.

Ask your professors, "What do you think? A philosopher told me that 'Lives are lives in different levels.' Is he crazy?"

Teru Wong

[TheRationalSide]

You're too full of yourself sir and yet you know nothing about science.

[teru382]

Science is not a term for monopolies of knowledge. You know nothing about a DISCOVERY.

Gallieo said that "the Earth is round". The sailor replied, "You're a fool, sir. You know nothing about the END."

Get a clue?

Teru Wong

[AAL]

every sailor knows the world is round, because you always see the mast of a far away ship before you see the hull.

[teru382]

Then a philosopher knows the Earth is a living object, because we are NOT space arrivals. Do me a favour, scientists. Please think twice before you reply to my comment.

Teru Wong

[isaachaze1]

your comment makes NO sense. please think twice before posting such a comment :)

[neonsilkworm]

Not sure the philosophy you subscribe to, Mr. Wong. The Earth itself is non-living. It is home to living organisms. These are separate sciences.

Philosophy lends conceptual "meaning" to otherwise meaningless processes. I take it that you differentiate yourself from scientists as a philosopher yourself?

As a sentient species, it is important to understand the sciences and become at peace with nature through philosophy, to lead to further understanding and advancement.

[teru382]

You see? Scientists.

Ask yourself one question, "Are all living organisms on the Earth BELONG to this planet?"

EVERY scientist have to take up the responsibilities for OUR DEATH if they denied my hypothesis, "PLANETS ARE LIVING OBJECT".

Teru Wong

[neonsilkworm]

I think I'm starting to roughly understand what you're saying, though your English delivery may need some work.

If you're defining "the planet" as a developed, interacting ecosystem then I suppose you 'could' define it as "living." We don't want to "kill" the planet with our ignorant actions like pollution and careless waste.

But we don't "belong" to this planet as much as we have evolved and adapted to this planet's conditions. We wouldn't quite fit in anywhere else.

[teru382]

Languages are ONLY for communications. Exchanges of Ideas.

I am talking about the Origin.

Living organisms do not migrant on the Earth from the outter space. What make the Earth different?

Teru Wong

[neonsilkworm]

Do not underestimate the importance of the medium of communication, Mr. Wong. It is the very essence of our understanding of data and each other.

Regarding this origin, you won't find it within evolutionary science. You're talking about Panspermia or Exogenesis.

It's a plausible scenario which I'm not gathering any argument from you to the contrary. Another popular scientific origin scenario is abiogenesis, and there are many scientists who think a supernatural being did it.

So?

[teru382]

I am referring to the theory of "Evolution" as a NATURAL process of "Growth" of the planet itself. The "Candle of Lives" is "a-live". Natural process of a live (or a living organism) - BIRTH, GROWTH to DEATH - is ironic. Thus, the Earth itself is a "conscious" living object. (In which, "consciousness" referring to the abilities to think and react until OUR death. It comes from BIRTH.)

Seriously, it's not a joke. I am Teru Wong. The PUBLIC can easily get to me through every channel on the net.

[isaachaze1]

"science" is simply a way of looking at things, nothing more; nothing less. but you are correct that it no way is a, "term for monopolies of knowledge". science is simply a quest for knowledge.

[omegavalerius]

I hate to break it to you but you would impress people a lot more if your statements wouldn't be factually incorrect. If you want to impress people who are rational with real sense of wonder I suggest you familiarize yourself with Carl Sagan. Knowledge and a sense of deep awe are not incompatible.

[Kingery4President]

I do not think we lose sight of the flower as we try to understand its construction (though I am sure it happens).

I think that when we understand the construction of even the flower, we understand the basic construction of everything.

[neonsilkworm]

I believe his point was more than the flower itself (the sum of its parts), but rather its interaction with the environment in which it lives - which is the greater ecological aspect of life.

[Kingery4President]

Is it the interaction of the sum of the parts that create the flower?

Is it the interaction of all humans in the USA that create the "flower" called the United States?

What is it that we will do with this interaction?

[kwazi6]

The rotting cesspool called the U.S.?

[Kingery4President]

The rotting cesspool seems to include much of the world.

What do you suggest to improve the situation.

[kwazi6]

Remove the "much of the world" from U.S. soil.

[neonsilkworm]

The flower itself consists of its smaller parts, the "sum of its parts," but its interaction with the environment in which it developed is the "greater" of that sum.

Your analogy with human society is a poor one when related to a single living organism. Too many factors to discuss.

Your last question is one which application is as diverse as imagination allows.

[justnaesman]

another great video - do you guys take donations?

[thoughtwaretv]

Thank you Cassiopeia Project : )

We've shared many of your videos at Thoughtware (dot) TV

[chopin65]

Great video. Opens up one's imagination. Thanks for posting.

[canerdc]

Brilliant!

[IQ20000Berta]

brilliant video

Easy to understand but with such a quality which i have never seen before in other science movies.

[1RadicalOne]

No HD on this one?

[MilletGtr]

It was uploaded only recently, the HD function comes along after a while.

[darkdestiny0002]

Very nice i like the way he talks!

[Faergen]

THANK YOU! I have been trying to introduce the idea to people who talk about psychology, but people Just Won't Listen! Thank you!

[stotlex]

I was just running the exact same idea through my head, and your video captured the idea perfectly, sometimes i wish everyone could understand "complexity" like this and not have ti take away from the beauty, music and life of what we know. I hope that one day not too far into the future everyone can accept the idea that we really are all bound together, and not much separates us, we don't need stories to help, care and love each other and we can just be.

[TheMathKing]

If you want to understand complexity and systems that are governed by random processes, statistical mechanics is the way to go! It's the modern thermal-physics. With it we can basically impose conditions that represent macroscopic, viewable behaviors, then describe the system on a microscopic level. (or visa versa). It has weaknesses that force you to do some sloppy approximations, but if you play around with it, you could describe evolution using physics.

[vincenmt]

GO has much simpler rules and is much more complex.

[TheStephenation]

Go would have been such a perfect example for this concept. I'm guessing they went with chess because most people are much more familiar with it (and that makes sense). But compared to go, chess has a lot of rules.

[CousinoMacul]

Yep, it's the relationship between the parts more than the parts themselves that defines the whole.

[burn0gas]

Another example - look at the 'complexity' of the economy - with no single orchestrator controlling every move - each individual makes up a part, but the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

[kimberlyliles]

I'm one of your biggest fans! I watch all of your videos and learn a great deal from them. Keep it up! Awesome stuff!