Learn from cutting-edge biology how to manage risk as an entrepreneur or an investor by raising adaptive capacity of your start-up or scale up in this specially tailored workshop. Guided by our expert facilitators, learn how to pivot as part of a plan using maths and science. Learn how to discover hidden innovation and market potential in your existing business idea or product with the concept of innovation ciphers. Learn how to use game theory applied from cutting-edge biolo

To cite, please use timestamped PDF by Adam Timlett Note: What follows is a technical overview of the 'innovation cipher' concept to demonstrate the background research and science it is based on. This article is not the material used to guide participants in our workshops. The way to leverage this concept effectively is by a guided workshop led by our expert facilitators and educators which will make the process tailored to your product's innovation potential, and, most impo

PDF with timestamp certificate for download and citation. Introduction Searle’s Chinese Room is a thought experiment which is supposed to prime our intuition against the possibility that the brain is simply some type of computer. It has a long history. First published in 1980, it came to my awareness only in the 1990s, when it was then mainly being discussed in the context of progress in things like early neural networks and whether such ‘sub-symbolic’ architectures made Sear

Timestamped PDF for download and citation In The 2nd Invisible Hand I argued that Nature may be exploiting other options around growth to control problems such as pollution and exhaustion of resources from over-exploitation. One interesting example of this may be the courtship of flamingos, whose complexity I argue is a cryptographic effect for the flamingos themselves, to navigate a complex process that limits the ability of flamingos to efficiently reproduce, so protecting

Timestamped PDF for Download and Citation I have spent some considerable time working on specifically how we can learn from cutting-edge biology to create a real, more complete science for how to better manage risk and develop our economic theory to actually face the challenges we have today. People have argued from a non-economics background that energy use ‘simply’ needs to be integrated properly into economic allocation decisions, but how to do this is left unsaid. Looking

The title image looks at a three way game involving the idea of triadic closure. This is a theory from graphs that demonstrates the idea that interesting interactions can be 3-way not simply 2-way. In standard teaching of game theory we model the simplest possible games of cooperation as games in which there are only two players. While we do talk about one player games, these types of games are those in which one player makes all decisions, and so there is no conception that

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Image Credit: James Robert White Executive Summary The idea of a ‘sustainable complexity floor’ and a ‘sustainable complexity ceiling’ is...