The second segment here, beginning about 13m30s in, discussing how intelligence and information as a compressed and simplified version of reality was timely for

The second segment here, beginning about 13m30s in, discussing how intelligence and information as a compressed and simplified version of reality was timely for me as I am engaged in a discussion over how the notion of a "universal" intelligence (e.g., planet-wide ecosystem, or universal) really isn't what is typically referenced by intelligence or sentience. A system as a whole isn't an intelligence, it is the system. A simplified model which describes and permits management of that system may be intelligence. In other news, the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity podcast has been rebooted after a nearly one-year hiatus. It's long been among my favourite and most rewarding podcasts, combining a mix of topics that's absolute catnip to this ... space alien cat: complexity, information, systems, intelligence, networks, chaos, self-organisation, emergent order.