complexity | Pavel Chvykov

Jan 30, 20223 min read

Understanding the whole without the parts?

“I’m a physicist, I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains” –Sheldon, “The Big Bang Theory” While...

Jan 13, 20212 min read

Designing environments to select designs

In the last few posts we reasoned that “growing cars” would mean somehow creating them without a human planning out all the details of...

Jan 6, 20212 min read

Darwinian designs

What is the difference between the amazing designs of biology, and those built by humans? Well, as we’ve discussed in the last couple...

Jan 3, 20212 min read

Building cars we don't understand

Alright, so in the last post we were talking about growing cars (yes, I’m pretending this is a talk-show). I tried to argue that the...

Dec 31, 20202 min read

Can we grow cars instead of building them?

Well that sounds like an exciting idea — imagine a car tree that grows on its own, and we need not do anything other than pick the...