Entropy and Understanding

In this episode, Tobe joins me to discuss how consilience collapses concepts, the nature of entropy, markets as anticipation machines, biology as a model of past environments that survives by matching the present and future, the division of labor freeing mental bandwidth, energy as the basis of value, and the provisional nature of all knowledge.

0:00 Defining entropy: not disorder, but the fall toward the probable
2:07 Local order vs. global decay: the zero-sum game
4:19 One model, and the case against synonyms
4:53 Is model-building epistemologically bankrupt?
6:37 "Your longing for…