Regularities and Randomness: Part I (Rebroadcast)

On this week's show, Nobel Laureate, Dr. Murray Gell-Mann delivered the first of two lectures titled "Regularities and Randomness in the Past and Future." Dr. Gell-Mann delivered these lectures as part of a lecture series organized by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University, where he was a visiting professor.

Doctor Gell-Mann is a renowned theoretical physicist, and a distinguished fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, a private nonprofit multidisciplinary research and education center founded in 1984. He received the Nobel Prize for his work in elementary particle theory. His recent work has focused on complex adaptive systems that learn or evolve by using acquired information.