Stuart Kauffman - Is the World Self-Organizing?

Watch Closer To Truth’s library of 5,000 videos for free: Are the laws of nature or physics blind in that they seek no direction and have no ‘purpose’? That’s the scientific paradigm. But the world works so well: from a very simple beginning, complexities and beauties have emerged. Some say that there are deep ‘organizing principles’ in the laws of nature such that complexities are natural and expected outcomes. Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: Explore more interviews on complexity and emergence: Stuart Alan Kauffman is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. Register for free at for subscriber-only exclusives: Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.