Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

The article “To err is (not only) human” by the “Mistakes in living systems: a new conceptual framework” team is available as an audio essay.

The podcast recently featured an interview with Justin Garson, PI of the “Putting representations back into goal-directedness” project. The episode is titled “Is Madness an Evolved Signal?”

Often, people discover that too much of a good thing can become a bad thing. In the same way that eating too much candy can hurt your stomach, too many nutrients in our environment can hinder herbivorous insects. Historically, plants and animals have had limited access to necessary nutrients such as…