I was there—on the drafting call, in the back corner of a drafty conference room in the Pentagon’s E-ring. And I’ll tell you something that never made it into the record: halfway through, one of the junior drafters—we called her LT—looked up and asked, “Wait… are we actually going to do this? Or is this just another polite lie we tell ourselves about interoperability?”
The process he describes is sufficiently profound, important, and under-explored that I've started calling it "Designing your own Schgaguler": 1. Identify an experience that creates a compelling sublime feeling 2. Collect items that remind you of that feeling 3. Work with the universe to own a context for creating that feeling 4. Patiently build it 5. Tell others about the journey, using the result as an example
Julia Freeland Fisher (on Class Disrupted) puts her finger on the real existential risk of AI: ensuring we prioritize human connection over simulated experiences.
came of age in the 1980s, as the C programming language and UNIX operating system were becoming the gold standard for "serious" computing. I was taught that: - Lisp reflects how computers **think** - C reflects how computers **work** - Shell scripts reflect how humans **write** I never questioned this split ....
If this view is correct, then our quest for fundamental physics might ultimately lead to a revelation of the celestial order—where matter, energy, and consciousness are all aspects of the same cosmic hologram.
Missional pioneers don’t fail because they lack vision. They fail because they lack a structure that provides both gritty grace and painful kindness—the two forces required to trigger transformation. They need hohlraums…
Through celestial holography, we can reinterpret spin and angular momentum as emergent from the conformal symmetries of the celestial sphere. This approach offers a novel and potentially unifying principle that aligns with the ideas proposed by Witten and colleagues, providing a fresh lens to understand the stability of the universe.
"We’ve all pondered why the universe doesn’t just collapse into a giant blob. On one end, angular momentum prevents gravitational collapse, stabilizing galaxies. On the other, electron degeneracy pressure stops stars from imploding. These phenomena seem unrelated, yet spin ties them together. Could spin be the key to a deeper unifying principle of stability across scales?"
Emergent physics is one of the most fascinating domains of modern science. It is not merely about understanding the universe at its most fundamental level but about uncovering how the simple rules governing microscopic interactions give rise to the awe-inspiring complexity of the macroscopic world. Here, I provide an overview of emergent physics and relate it to theories like Assembly Theory and Constructal Theory, which address aspects of this profound problem.
Brahman: "You have seen how the loops of causation evolve, each encompassing new dimensions of reality. Now, I challenge you to identify what lies beyond Status—what is the Sixth Loop? Is it grounded in mind, consciousness, technology, or something even more profound?"
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