Julio Ottino - chaos, the capacity for emergence, and timeless ideas

Every so often someone comes along whose thinking and work inspire you with the kind of awe that always feels new and fills you with an energy that brings vibrancy to life. Julio Mario Ottino is one of these people. Pulling from science, technology, and art, creating entirely new spaces in their convergence, he has transformed how to think about discovery and creativity.

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Show Notes:

• Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka influences (07:10)
• his first book: The Mathematical Foundations of Mixing(08:00)
• emergence (14:20)
  • multiple discoveries
• cultivating patience and tolerating tension (21:00)
• Oliver Sacks (24:30)
• hardest thing to teach (25:00)
• specialists vs. generalists (26:00)
• Dario Robleto at the Block Museum (29:00)
• enrich your set of possible ideas (30:00)
• mental library (30:15)
• whole brain engineering (32:00)
• Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) (38:00)
  • Emergent disciplines: synthetic biology, computational social science, finite Earth 
• measuring complexity (43:0)
  • capacity for emergence 
• science of science (44:30)
• Luis Amaral (45:30)
• Daniel Diermeier (45:30)
• Dashun Wang (47:40)
• Brian Uzzi (48:30)
• Noshir Contractor (50:00)
• Nexus book (51:30)
• An epistemology of collectivity (54:15)
• the myth of the lone genius (54:30)
• Primo Pensiero - first thought (57:00)
• Find Julio online:
  • www.juliomarioottino.com/
• Lightning round (01:01:00)
  • Book: Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges
  • Passion: documenting his life in cartoons
  • Heart sing: limits of artificial intelligence
  • Screwed up: managing people
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Julio’s playlist

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