On Assembly Theory, A New Complexity Measure of Life
Scientific American, November 2021
New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans
Scientific American, July 2021
A New Theory of Life’s Multiple Origins
Santa Fe Institute, Fall 2021
What are the Laws of Life?
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Winter 2021
Origin Story
Aeon, Fall 2020
Taking Stock of History’s Computational Turn
Santa Fe Institute, Winter 2019
Can Evolution Reveal How Life Emerged from Chemistry?
Santa Fe Institute, Fall 2019
A Mendelian Moment for Cultural Evolution
Santa Fe Institute, Summer 2019
Hallmarks of Biological Failure—Death as system collapse
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Spring 2019
Will AI Ever Crash the Barrier of Meaning?
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Summer 2018
Loosing the Arrow of Complex Time
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Winter 2018
Can Lookahead Optimization Help Us Make Better Decisions?
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Winter 2017
What are the Limits of Scientific Understanding?
Parallax, Santa Fe Institute, Fall 2017
Natalie Elliot is a writer and college professor based in Santa Fe, NM and New York. Her work explores how science and technology reshape what it means to be human.