Brian Josephson on Organised Complexity and Thermodynamics

There's an interesting question at 25:28 about using thermodynamics and statistical physics to describe self-organising phenomena. I wonder if he'd be interested in playing around with arrays of cheap coupled oscillators? See IMSAI Guy on Chua's Circuit and Professor Peter Elwood - Aspirin and cancer: the emerging evidence. See also Feynman on why physicists think that all the laws of Nature are based on interactions been spin one-half and spin one particles: The Action Lab - Ulexite (How Does Television Stone Work?)

See Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends by Viktor K. Jirsa and Scott Kelso. Also Gerald Sussman Talking at ACM SIGPLAN Scheme '22 - Programming Should be Fun.

See also Michael Halliday, Noam Chomsky on the Minimalist Thesis of Language and these papers by Winograd.

At 27:14 on playing music to water. Maybe it's this video? This is a phenomenon known as cymatics.

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Patricia Potts' question at 32:45 is about using LLMs in numerical computation, I think. She's talking about looking for hidden structure in numerical computational systems: that same group structure Josephson was just talking about. See Modeling Probability Distributions and Solving Differential Equations. It seems chemists are doing something similar. See AI and Chemputation Drive Discovery of Organic Laser Emitters in Global Collaboration published in Science.

At 37:25 there a question about how grammar relates to physical law. I made this video last night on that subject. My answer would be that when the law fails it is because there is some structure in the system that is not modeled adequately by the representation.

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I just realised that YouTube is searching the text transcripts now, so when you see a red bar on videos in search results it doesn't mean you watched that before, it means that's the point in the video where your search term was found. See Wade Davis on Coca.

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