Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?

Guests: Vijay Balasubramanian, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania Geoffrey West, Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music: Mitch Mignano Other Music: Blue Dot Sessions, Pink House Music, Eardeer, and Craig Smith. Follow us on: Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • Bluesky SFI programs: Complexity Global School Complexity Explorer: Fractals & Scaling Education Books & Stories: Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum Scale by Geoffrey West “Funes, the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges Talks: How the Brain Makes You: Collective Intelligence and Computation by Neural Circuits by Vijay Balasubramanian The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West Energy, Scaling & The Future of Life on Earth by Geoffrey West Complex Time Working Group: “What is Sleep?” with Geoffrey West, Van Savage, Alex Herman Papers: “Brain Power” in PNAS (August 2, 2021) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.210702211 “The Physical Effects of Learning” preprint published in biorxiv “Unraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development” in Science Advances (September 18, 2020) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0398 “The Scales That Limit: The Physical Boundaries of Evolution” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (August 7, 2019) doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00242