The Physics of Life: How to Predict Evolution

Hello and welcome everyone. This is Active Inference Guest Stream number 66.1 on December 6th, 2023. Today we are very excited and honored to have a presentation and discussion with Adrian Bajon. First in this session, Susan Hastie is going to provide some slides and context. Adrian will provide a talk and we'll have a discussion on through the hour and then Susan and I will stay on the live stream. So if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to write them. So thank you both for joining and Susan to you. Thank you, Daniel. And I'm so excited and thank you so much for affording this opportunity, Dr. Bajon. I thought that we would actually begin. I wanted to introduce you and as I was thinking about it, I could spend probably the entire time just going over all the citations and awards that you've received. So I thought though that what I really wanted to share was, something that is not necessarily in the public domain. I wanted to really dig into the significance of the ConstructoLaw and the difference it's made not only for, I think the world, which most people don't appreciate, I think, and also the significance it's made for me. It's definitely changing paradigms across the globe. This, of course, is Adrian's many publications and his many citations. I think there's 90,000 citations of his work alone to date. But what I'd like for the audience to really take away is really thinking about life in a new paradigm and how the ConstructoLaw can inform us of how I think about a difference in not only just what is life, but also what is power and what is evolution and change. And I'll give you a good example of where we will talk about a flow paradigm or flow architecture. And in thinking about architecture, one idea that still permeates society and I think holds back progress is how we think about hierarchy. And Adrian's books has definitely informed me to think very differently. You know, we still think about hierarchy like we built them in pyramids 4,500 years ago, you know, where we housed dead people. And so this actually has the potential to change that and to really think differently. And one thing that a lot of people don't realize is, is that scientists from around the globe have been coming together for over 14 years annually and presenting their findings and how they've taken this and spread it into every domain imaginable. This was actually a doctor, Dr. Lucia, who's I believe he's in Italy. He shared with me just last night in talking about it and how he's actually taken the ConstructoLaw and made innovations in research in cancer. And I thought his quote was just so powerful in terms of how we think differently about reality by really understanding and going very deep and contemplating how the ConstructoLaw is, is so significant. This actually, what I think is, is what is, what I've discovered and uncovered is, is that it's actually spread far beyond the halls of academia. And I'm going to make a bold prediction because we're going to be talking about predictions. And I'm going to predict that Dr. Bajan Bajan will be awarded the Nobel Prize because, because it's not just the citations that of his work, but when we look at and you go deep, you're going to find that this, the people are using the ConstructoLaw. For example, yeah, this, this one academic paper has already had many, many citations in and of itself. You know, it's being talked about in terms of religion and in terms of indigenous societies. It's impacted architectures in how airports and how structures are being made. And for me personally, I'm not coming out of academia, but, but reading it and understanding the ConstructoLaw really has given me an incredible awe and appreciation for science. It's actually given me a new appreciation for life. And, and so here's just a few of the ways that, that ChatGTP just put together. Here is how it's already spawned new ways of thinking about every area of, of, of application and innovation. And, and…