Hence The Future

Ep. 91 - The Future of Emergence

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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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