Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Everyday Life

In this 2023 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Neil Theise, M.D discusses the nature of complex systems, and how the limited randomness in biological life makes us different from machines. They also discuss how the brain does not create consciousness, and how consciousness is fundamental in the universe.

Theise is a practicing pathologist and leading stem-cell researcher as well as an explorer in the nature of consciousness and its relationship to us and the cosmos as revealed in Complexit...