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Your brain is made up of cells. Each one does its own, cell thing. But remarkable behavior emerges when lots of them join up in the grey matter club. You are a conscious being \u2013 a single neuron isn\u2019t.\nFind out about the counter-intuitive process known as emergence \u2013 when simple stuff develops complex forms and complex behavior \u2013 and all without a blueprint.\nPlus self-organization in the natural world, and how Darwinian evolution can be speeded up.\nGuests:\n\n\nRandy Schekman \u2013 Professor of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2013 Nobel Prize-winner\n\n\nSteve Potter \u2013 Neurobiologist, biomedical engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology\n\n\nTerence Deacon \u2013 Biological anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley\n\n\nSimon DeDeo \u2013 Research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute\n\n\nLeslie Valiant \u2013 Computer scientist, Harvard University, author of Probably Approximately Correct: Nature\u2019s Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices