Alphabets of Emergence - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious
My goal for Subconscious is to create a system capable of provoking emergence. Minecraft, the web, wikis, spreadsheets, and legos are all examples of systems that can provoke emergent behavior. So what does it take to provoke emergence? Where does emergence come from?
My goal for Subconscious is to create a system capable of provoking emergence. Minecraft, the web, wikis, spreadsheets, and legos are all examples of systems that can provoke emergent behavior. So what does it take to provoke emergence? Where does emergence come from? A generating system… is a kit of parts, with rules about the way these parts may be combined. Almost every ‘system as a whole’ is generated by a ‘generating system’. If we wish to make things which function as ‘wholes’ we shall have to invent generating systems to create them. - Christopher Alexander, 1968, “Systems…
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