Brennan Klein - Teleology, Perception, Complex Systems

Holy cow, it was great to chat with Brennan Klein (1). It’s another renaissance person on the Pod. In his research, Brennan attempts to understand how complex systems are able to represent, predict, and intervene on their surroundings across a number of different scales—all in ways that appear to maintain the statistical boundary between them and their environment. He uses this approach to study a range of phenomena from decision making, to experimental design, to causation and emergence ...