On the Shoulders of Substrates

Emergence Spirals

In response to Elizier Yudkowski's essay "The Futility of Emergence" I take a very long time explaining some ways to define and recognise emergence in a way that is useful. | For the original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/emergencespirals.html

Emergence is Beautiful

What does living in an entropic universe mean for beauty... or meaning itself? | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/emergenceisbeautiful.html

Replicators—The Pandoran Children of Emergence

This episode explores Susan Blackmore's concept of Temes and the importance of replicators when understanding emergence. | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/replicators.html

On the Shoulders of Substrates

In the 5th part in our Emergence series, we look at a key mechanism of emergence; substrates. | Visit the original post here: https://nonzerosum.games/substrates.html

Emergent Gravity

This is one where you'll want to visit the page (https://nonzerosum.games/graviton.html) because it has an interactive gravity simulation that is central to the piece. This is a (speculative) proof of concept that went a bit further than initially expected, and likely a strong candidate for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.