What wears out and starts to become dysfunctional? If you are starting to think about aging and mortality, you have to start thinking about what is going wrong in terms of keeping you alive. Some of what is written below is verbatim and some of it is redacted slightly to be more reader-friendly: Part 1 – Biological Scaling Such is the plethora of vital information therein, I had to split this exercise into 3 parts. It is so overwhelmingly relevant and cutting edge, I felt compelled to write excerpts as a personal development exercise so I could internalize it. ‘ From Cells to Cities‘ deals with aspects of life that we rarely consider yet are intrinsically part of who we are and the environment in which we live. This post is part one of three of this illuminating ‘Waking Up’ podcast. In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey West about how biological and social systems scale, the significance of fractals, the prospects of radically extending human life, the concept of “emergence” in complex systems, the importance of cities, the necessity for continuous innovation, and other topics. Waking Up with Sam Harris #86 – From Cells to Cities (with Geoffrey West)
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