Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

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George Gantz

13 episodes

4 months ago

Have you ever wondered why the world seems so complex and chaotic? How do we make sense of it all? This new video/audio podcast series, “Making Sense of Complexity”, will feature conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in. Hosted by George Gantz, the production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Weekend, and is produced by True Spectrum Media. We may not resolve the key philosophical questions of causation, free will, consciousness, ethics, the nature of reality, the limits of evidence, the basis of belief or the meaning of life. But we hope to get a better understanding of complexity science and offer some ideas of how to make sense of the world we live in. Episodes are posted on the 1st and 15th of every month.

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Episodes (13/13)

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 12 - Mike Radzicki

Making Sense of Complexity features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in? Hosted by George Gantz, the
production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Adventures, and is produced by True Spectrum Media.

Today our guest is Mike Radzicki, an economist and expert in system dynamics, a model-based approach to analyzing complex organizations and systems, first pioneered by his colleague Jay Forrester in the 1960’s. Mike has spoken and consulted globally on system dynamics and its
important contributions towards a better understanding of complex system behavior. In this episode we explore the roots of system dynamics and its goal of making sense of complexity in economics, markets and management.

Collaborator Links:
Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org
Planksip: https://www.planksip.org
Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast
Complexity Adventures: https://www.complexityadventures.com
True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

1 year ago

59 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 10 - Dr. Mark S. Cohen

Making Sense of Complexity features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in? Hosted by George Gantz, the production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Adventure, and is produced by True Spectrum Media.

Today our guest is Dr. Mark Cohen, a neuroscientist and co-inventor of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Mark is fascinated by the relationships between structure and function in the human brain. Mark is also intensely curious and multifaceted, whether exploring the brain, the complexities of machine learning, the nature of our inner experience, or the beauty of musical polyrhythms and harmonics.

Collaborator Links:

Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org

Planksip: https://www.planksip.org

Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast

Complexity Weekend: https://www.complexityadventures.com

True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

2 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 11 - N.P. Klaus Landsman

Making Sense of Complexity features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in? Hosted by George Gantz, the production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Adventures, and is produced by True Spectrum Media.

Today our guest is Dr. Klaas Landsman, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Radboud University in Netherlands, and winner of the Spinoza Prize in 2022. Klaas is a renowned educator and researcher in theoretical physics and deep mathematics and his interdisciplinary approach is both innovative and collaborative. In this episode we explore the complexity of quantum physics and the mathematical innovations it has inspired. We will be making reference to three of his works. Links are provided below.

References: Selected works by Klaas Landssman

The Fine-Tuning Argument (Springer 2016)

Undecidability and Indeterminism (FQXi 2020)

Foundations of General Relativity – From Einstein to Black Holes (Radboud University Press 2021)

Collaborator Links:

Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org

Planksip: https://www.planksip.org

Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast

Complexity Adventures: https://www.complexityadventures.com

True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

2 years ago

1 hour

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 9 - Dr. Noson Yanofsky

Episode Description
Today our guest is noted mathematician and author of The Outer Limits of Reason, Dr. Noson S. Yanofsky. Noson is a professor of computer and information science. Noson has the remarkable ability to explain complex issues in mathematics and logic in plain language. His areas of focus include Category Theory, Complexity Theory, and Quantum Computing.

Collaborator Links

Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org

Planksip: https://www.planksip.org

Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast

Complexity Weekend: https://www.complexityweekend.com

True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

2 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 8 - Justin Anthony Junge

Making Sense of Complexity features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in? Hosted by George Gantz, the production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Weekend, and is produced by True Spectrum Media.

Today our guest is Princeton Professor Justin Jungé. Justin earned a PhD in Psychology from Yale, and served in fellowship positions at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Tufts before joining the faculty at Princeton. His areas of focus include the philosophy of science and mind, information theory, brain evolution and probabilistic laws and the emergence of order.

Collaborator Links:

Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org

Planksip: https://www.planksip.org

Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast

Complexity Weekend: https://www.complexityadventures.com

True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

2 years ago

1 hour

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 7 - Bleu Knight

A conversation with Dr. Bleu Knight, a polymath drawn to the mysteries of complexity science and its multi-disciplinary discoveries. In this interview she talks about how she makes peace with it all.

3 years ago

56 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 6 - Michael Garfield

A conversation with Michael Garfield, artist, musician, writer, editor, organizer and cultural change agent, as well as the host of Santa Fe Institute's Complexity podcast.

3 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 5 - Michaela Emch

Making Sense of Complexity features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science. How do we make sense of the uncertain and seemingly incomprehensible world we live in? Hosted by George Gantz, the production is a collaboration with Spiral Inquiry, Planksip, Talk of Today, and Complexity Weekend, and is produced by True Spectrum Media.

Today our guest is Michaela Emch, a multi-talented communication and marketing specialist, translator, cultural mediator, biomimicry practitioner, safari guide, keen naturalist and biology enthusiast. In 2021 Michaela wrote the book “From Natures Mouth - The Handbook for Bio-infused Human Communication.” Our conversation explores how the features of complex biological systems, including the human cell, provide important insights for how we communicate and how we organize complex human systems.

Collaborator Links:
Spiral Inquiry: https://spiralinquiry.org
Planksip: https://www.planksip.org
Talk of Today: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast
Complexity Weekend: https://www.complexityweekend.com
True Spectrum Media/Cray Novick: https://linktr.ee/cameracray

3 years ago

59 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 4 - Gary F. Bengier

A conversation with Gary F. Bengier, writer, philosopher, technologist and SFI Board Member, and the author of the award-winning SF novel Unfettered Journey.

3 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

EPISODE 3 - Sam Barton

Today our guest is Sam Barton, a generalist and philosopher based in Sydney, Australia. Sam hosts the Talk of Today podcast and is interested in the moral and political implications of complexity science.

3 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 2 - Daniel Sanderson

Today our guest is Daniel Sanderson, the Founder of planksip®, a philosophy and cultural media outlet for non-fiction authors and Academics. Daniel is a writer and active blogger on Science and Philosophy, and father of two, living in British Columbia, Canada.

3 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Episode 1 - Daniel Friedman

Today our guest is complexity science practitioner, Daniel Friedman. Daniel is a Researcher at the University of California, Davis, in Entomology, and a co-organizer of both the Active Inference Lab and the Complexity Weekend community of practice.

3 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Making Sense of Complexity with George Gantz

Trailer: Making Sense of Complexity

Have you ever wondered why the world seems so complex and chaotic? How do we make sense of it all? This new podcast series, “Making Sense of Complexity”, will feature conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers Making Sense of Complexity, a new video/audio series, features conversations with complexity science practitioners and philosophers on the deep and fascinating findings of complexity science.

3 years ago

2 minutes