Searching for Simplicity & Unity | Geoffrey West | Talks at Google
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- Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
Dr. Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications.
His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena evolved into a highly productive collaboration on the origin of universal scaling laws that pervade biology from the molecular genomic scale up through mitochondria and cells to whole organisms and ecosystems. His talk and his book involve the extension of these ideas to understand quantitatively the structure and dynamics of social organizations, such as cities and corporations, including the relationships between economies of scale, growth, innovation and wealth creation and their implications for long-term survivability and sustainability.
Get the book here: goo.gl/uXZChY
His book, "Scale", is flipping phenomenal. It should be read by everyone.
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I could have listened to him for the better part of a day. Hope to see more of him.
Always love to hear my Uncle talk. It's always amazing x
Thank you Dr. West, for the talk and for writing the book. I am learning a lot.
Videographer: The speaker's slides are at least as important to see as his attractive persona. Please spend more time on the slides that he is referencing. Watch, where the eyes of his seated audience are directed most of the time and you'll see that they are usually looking at his slides as he speaks. Ideally, you could put his person in an inset and let the slides be preeminent. Thanks for an otherwise good presentation.
It seems they were having technical difficulties if you couldn't tell. You don't need to act like a jerkoff about it. Some things are just not in your control, David.
Thought provoking !!!
Great interesting talk!
This is the most important information on earth
Excellent.
Wow!!!
he's amazing
What happened to question time?
If infrastructure/overhead requirements are 25% less per capita in urban areas why do these areas tend to have higher cost of living and higher tax rates?
Maybe because a lot of people want to live there and are prepared to exorbitant prices to do so in other words businesses and governing bodies take advantage of them
Complicated and Argumentative is all its ever going to be. So keep dreaming.
Regarding the 15 percent excess rate or the 85 percent number in cities: The square root of 4/3 is 1.1547 , and sqrt(4/3) is 0.866. Coincidence?
but why?? is it cause cities are largely 2D vs 3D animals. I wonder what the excess rate of 2D organisms like lichen is
30:30 Natural growth is a sigmoid curve?
The Great Reset : You will own nothing and you will be happy. Too much money produces stagnation. If system takes away comfort and unnecessary extra money from people we may witness new growth.
To relieve complacency system must be reset and then people become creative again.
Did he say entropy decreases in big cities?
no
45:57
Aren't we all meant to be laughing at Malthus?
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39:52
I have never heard it said so convincingly. Stephanie is a very gifted speaker.
Kathleen Toth ??? Geoffrey West talking about his book Scale.
48:14
We live in an exponential whoops.
The assian guy in the audience annoys me. Apart from that, Great Talk.
rah why is it always these people?
How?
@@zwip778 Your comment comes across as ignorant
IKR? Keeps on huffing down food like some starving refugee. I would've moved away if I were beside him.
6:36
Speaker kills off audience !!!
Strange talk
Lots of (loudly spoken) words but not much said.
The guy eating of a plate during a talk ... ffs. Really?
asshole .. also asked an obnoxious and rude question without even listening.
Probably Chinese. That's how they eat. FFS, during a talk.
Over-projecting his voice ☹️
He doesn’t offer any solutions though... what do all these mathematical equations tell us we must do now to avoid decline in our cities, or their collapse? Move out of the cities?
These laws help us understand these complex adaptive systems and better predict what will happen next. An important step on the way to better solutions and measuring their impact.
He doesn't offer any solutions because they're all still being studied
Dude, you are a systems theorist whats all this theoretical physics junk? Pick a side man. Complex adaptive systems, theoretical physics? Stop confusing people. Get a new belt while your at it. Keep biology out of your mouth.
Theoretical physics junk? He was trained and practised as a theoretical physicist. Then he took that training and practice, collaborated with other people, biologists, economics etc., and what you hear is the result of this collaboration. "Keep biology out of your mouth", he has highly cited papers in biological journals, including papers in Nature and Science..
Tristan Dry you are right... However, physics involves linear causality and excludes the observer. Biology involves circular causality and includes the effect of making observations (no, not heisenberg). The scaling principle can, will break down at the socio-economic level simply by observing the scaling principle. See George Soros or Second Order Cybernetics.
OS:y FUTURE what is the difference between linear causality and circular causality. how do physicists not make the same sort of observations that biologists do? "scaling breaks down when you observe the scaling principle"? what the hell is that supposed to mean?
I hear you bro, Im not making this shit up.
Well you come of as if you are by not answering my questions.