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David Krakauer is the President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). His research focuses on the fundamental character of problem-solving matter, exploring the evolution of intelligence, life, and stupidity, alongside processes like 'exbodiment' that enhance intelligence through languages and artifacts. He investigates cellular, linguistic, social, and cultural mechanisms of communication and memory, as well as the interplay between organic and inorganic computational systems.
Key research questions include the origins of life and intelligence, the relationship between problem-solving and physical/biological laws, collective intelligence in adaptive agents, the evolution of ideas, and computational mechanisms across organic and cultural systems. Krakauer contributes to interdisciplinary fields through essays and books like The Complex World: An Introduction to the Foundations of Complexity Science and publications on AI, entropy, and knowledge paradigms. He serves on SFI's Science Steering Committee and Science Board, leading initiatives in complexity science and its applications to AI, law, and pandemic research.
