Bobby Azarian wrote The Romance of Reality. His book covers the disciplines behind today’s leading natural laws, and many of them also shaped Boyd’s OODA loop. I asked him to walk through them.
Information and entropy
We move through neuroscience and physics and the link between information theory and the second law of thermodynamics. Bobby separates thermal entropy from information entropy and explains why heat engines lose energy in conversion.
Meaning and agency
Bobby challenges the nihilistic view that life lacks meaning or agency. He sees society as an interconnected organism. That view helps business leaders, politicians and anyone trying to decide well.
Active inference and learning
We discuss active inference and goal-directed behavior. Bobby explains phylogenetic learning, the build-up of information in the biosphere and in the genomes of living things. He also covers the science of prediction, cycles in society and the chance for change in a crisis.
Bobby closed with news of a second book and his Substack, Road to Omega.
Prediction and adaptation keep orientation at the center of life itself, and Bobby makes that case from physics up.
What gives your work its sense of direction when the future is uncertain?
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