Limits to Self-Organization

July 06, 2015 00:13:11
Limits to Self-Organization
Intelligent Design the Future
Limits to Self-Organization

Jul 06 2015 | 00:13:11

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews University of British Columbia at Vancouver philosophy faculty member Richard Johns on his paper in the journal Synthese titled "Self-organization in dynamical systems: a limiting result." In the paper, Dr. Johns argues that there are limits to the complexity of structures that can be produced by self-organization. Johns shows that Darwinian evolution is actually a type of a self-organizing process, and that it too is limited in the types of biological structures it can produce.

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