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COMPLEX TIME: Adaptation, Aging, & Arrow of Time

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User:AmyLastuka

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Name
Amy Lastuka
Affiliation
Univ. Washington
Email address
amydash@uw.edu

Biography

Amy is finishing her PhD in Economics at the University of Washington, with a focus on labor and development economics. She just started a new position as a research analyst with the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Involvement in the Complex Time Research Theme

Student

This user is listed as a student for the following meetings:

  1. Population and the Environment: Analytical Demography and Applied Population Ethics
“Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the state of the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases the arrow points toward the past… I shall use the phrase “time’s arrow” to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.”
-Arthur Eddington
“It was Darwin’s chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable.”
-Ronald A. Fisher