Neil Theise and Bureau co-founder Greg Newton in conversation about Neil’s new book, Notes on Complexity.

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About Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being:

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness.

Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans, and across lands, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms—from cells to human beings, social structures, and ecosystems—life is open-ended, evolving, unpredictable, yet adaptive and self-sustaining. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole; and it investigates what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Neil Theise takes us to the exhilarating frontiers of human knowledge and, in the process, restores wonder and meaning to our experience of the everyday.

“An extraordinary book that will change the way you understand yourself and the universe.”

—Deepak Chopra

“A must-read instant classic.”—Robert Thurman

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity. He is also a longtime student of Zen Buddhism. He lives in New York.