Michael Levin's Platonic Space Argument
Michael Levin is a professor of biology at Tufts University, and is quite a prolific thinker. I have been following his work for a while because he is very interdisciplinary; something I think modern academia is seriously lacking. His biological research overlaps with artificial life, bioengineering, computer science, behavioral science, and cognitive science; introducing a truly novel perspective on these overlapping subdomains. This is relevant to me because I think economics (my discipline) ought to incorporate some of the concepts and methods his lab takes seriously, such as: collectives, swarming behavior, emergence, scaling laws, evolutionary development, and process oriented thinking. I think he is modeling complex systems the correct way. A mere mortal like myself couldn't possibly make the intellectual strides he's made. I see him as a thinker I'd like to emulate. However, no one has the answers to everything, and I can't help but critically analyze every ar...