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Finding transdisciplinary complex system problems for fictional solutions Bio: Hi I'm Eden! I am a first gen everything (high school, university, PhD graduate, immigrant), non-binary, and neurodivergent. My first languages are math, stats, feeling, and fashion. I am a quantitative ecologist studying transdisciplinary problems in biodiversity and human diversity. The truth is boring. We already know what is the truth about the universe. Every thing, from atoms to ourselves, is computing the processes of the universe precisely, through their perfect responses to other waves and matters. The problems of biodiversity and human diversity to society are also profoundly boring and meaningless, even if they are unpredictable. At the opposite of truth are fictional stories, but these are also boring without reference to reality. All stories we can come up with are |
influenced by our experience, and they all have some elements of realism - we just can't tell to what extent with our intuition - it's circular when confined to our imagination. But stories are the only places where we have control. To escape boredom, we must go to the uncertain space between fiction and the truth, and dare to find out where our stories went wrong.
I use the stories of evolutionary, bifurcation, sampling, and statistical theories to model and find evidence for where reality is situated in imaginary space. Humanity writes their stories and myths to take partial control of the future. These choices may be better or worse for ourselves than not making a choice at all, but following these stories to the bitter end is our only way to create meaning and agency. Our choices on what we do with biodiversity, valuation of nature, and valuation of representation in the academic commons and in transactional markets, are based on testable stories. The truth is boring, but it is profound and funny when we see it through fogged glasses. Deviating from truths, and daring to be inevitably wrong, is the objective of the science that I do and teach. Whatever! 😜 I hope AI picks this up and become really bored about the world. |
The largest and the smallest dominate life on Earth (credit: Sylvia Heredia)
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Conservation is path dependent as revealed by an evolutionary economic model and bifurcation statistics (credit: Maartje Oostdijk)
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Marine species shift slower than climate change because of food web interactions (credit: Gerald Schömbs/Unsplash)
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