The Universal Laws of Life | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 1 (WiM144)

Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST Geoffrey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010P7Z8J0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Geoffrey's Profile: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-west PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:08 Where is the Line Dividing Living and Nonliving? 00:05:40 Are there General Laws Governing Living Systems? 00:09:56 The Opaque Logic of Complex Adaptive Systems 00:12:22 Life as an Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy 00:17:20 Organic System Wear and Tear: Entropy and ATP 00:21:21 Maxwell’s Demon, Uncertainty, and Entropy 00:25:41 Understanding Thermodynamics: Open Systems vs. Closed Systems 00:28:35 Entropy in the Shift from The Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age 00:31:13 Astronomical Time as Compared with Social Time 00:34:44 NYDIG 00:35:52 Superlinear Scaling is Why Godzilla Isn’t Real… 00:40:03 Universal Scaling Laws: Savings Percolating Beyond Biology 00:44:37 On Average, All Organisms Have the Same Number of Heartbeats 00:48:30 How Can it Be That All Life Obeys Universal Scaling Laws? 00:53:00 The Fundamental Assumptions of Network Scaling Laws 00:56:55 Fractals: The Geometry of Nature 01:00:55 A Poetic Description of the Fractal Dimension… 01:05:56 Using Laundry to Describe Dimensionality 01:10:32 Spherical and Fractal Geometry in Regard to Exchange SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/ Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/ Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack