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Self-Organizing Ideas

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The goal of Subconscious is to generate self-organizing ideas. Organizing ideas through sheer force of will is difficult, and I am lazy. Luckily there may be another way. Given the right mechanisms, the right conditions, and enough energy and time, a system can self-organize.

The goal of Subconscious is to generate self-organizing ideas. Organizing ideas through sheer force of will is difficult, and I am lazy. Luckily there may be another way. Given the right mechanisms, the right conditions, and enough energy and time, a system can self-organize. What if ideas could self-organize? Imagine putting your scrap notes in a box. You shake that box, and after a while you start to notice something interesting begin to emerge. Related ideas begin to clump together. Unrelated ideas split apart. Sometimes ideas die off. Old ideas give birth to new ones. The concepts…

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