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It’s not just pluralism for us as humans dividing the world into disciplines each with its own vocabularies and conceptual frameworks and explanatory objects. I think, as I said before, the nervous system from the inside develops different objects for control as you go up the neuro axis. So I think that there's pluralism in how the nervous system sees the control problem and the representations it uses, and that is the ontological truth of pluralism. And then it has a kind of mapping onto the epistemological pluralism we have, and it may well be the reason why we have psychology and neuroscience, and we have psychiatry and we have neurology, is that those are as valid and separable as economics and philosophy are, or economics and sociology.
We don't believe that those disciplines anytime soon are gonna collapse onto the more basic one. So it may just be that we are beginning to discover that our disciplines in their divisions are actually picking up on true ontological differences. I think pluralism is a deep metaphysical truth. I don't think it's just our limitations as humans having to divide the world up into these disciplines. But an alien species could just see them all as a kind of particle physics. I just don't think that's true.

John Krakauer

[Italian]

Non si tratta solo del pluralismo per noi umani che dividiamo il mondo in discipline, ciascuna con i propri vocabolari e quadri concettuali e oggetti esplicativi. Penso che, come ho detto prima, il sistema nervoso dall'interno sviluppi diversi oggetti di controllo man mano che si sale lungo l'asse neurologico. Penso quindi che ci sia pluralismo nel modo in cui il sistema nervoso vede il problema del controllo e le rappresentazioni che utilizza, e questa è la verità ontologica del pluralismo. E poi c’è una sorta di mappatura sul nostro pluralismo epistemologico: forse la ragione per cui abbiamo la psicologia e le neuroscienze, la psichiatria e la neurologia, è che queste sono valide e si possono mantenere separate proprio come lo sono l'economia e la filosofia, o l'economia e la sociologia. Certo non crediamo che queste discipline collasseranno presto su quelle di livello più basilare. Quindi può darsi che stiamo iniziando a scoprire che le nostre discipline, con le loro divisioni, stiano in realtà cogliendo delle vere differenze ontologiche. Penso che il pluralismo sia una profonda verità metafisica. Non credo che siano solo i nostri limiti di esseri umani a fare in modo che dobbiamo dividere il mondo in queste discipline e che una specie aliena potrebbe vederle tutte come un tipo particolare di fisica delle particelle. Non credo che sia vero.

https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/95

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David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility

In this episode, we talk with SFI President David Krakauer about the goals of this research theme and what SFI brings to the table. We discuss the legacy of long-standing challenges to quantitative history and mathematical economics, how SFI thinks differently about these topics, and a brief outline of the major angles we’ll explore in this sub-series over the next year-plus — including the roles of dimension, causality, algorithms, scaling, innovation, emergence, and more.

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Transcript: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82/transcript

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SFI's Complexity is among my favourite podcasts. This episode, and the series it fronts, are a look into a revising of theories of political economy --- a domain which to date has been frustrating and problematic.

Strongly recommended.

https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82

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