Ep. 91 - The Future of Emergence

Emergent phenomena 🌌

In this episode, Mattimore explores a concept that’s many believe to be the single greatest mystery in our universe - emergence - the phenomenon that describes how order arises from chaos, how intelligence arises from stupidity, and how higher level beings emerge from lower level beings…

Examples of emergence:

• Cells in your body emerging as you
• Emergent behavior in ant colonies
• Fireflies lighting in unison
• Emergence in human societies
• Emergent page rankings by Google Rank Brain
• Wisdom of the crowd spookiness
• Quantum uncertainty and entanglement

Questions about emergence:

• How do we make sense of emergence?
• What does emergence tell us about the nature of Earth?
• What does emergence tell us about the nature of consciousness?
• Emergence as described in Andy Weir’s short story, “The Egg.”
• The parable of the woman with the leaky bucket

Future Scenarios:

• Worst Case Scenario
• Best Case Scenario
• Most Likely Scenario

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