{"id":4258,"date":"2025-12-20T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:50:46","slug":"emergent-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/emergent-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_46088\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0HqUYpGQIfs?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>Here is Emergent Garden&#8217;s thoughts on emergent complexity. I go through a tour of simple systems that produce unexpected complexity, and try to break down emergence into more general and useful ideas. We talk about snowflakes and ant colonies, cellular automata and universe simulations, and the many weird ideas of Stephen Wolfram. I also offer some advice for creating and encouraging emergent behavior. This video is important to me. Emergence is the most interesting thing in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Emergent Garden&#8217;s thoughts on emergent complexity. I go through a tour of simple systems that produce unexpected complexity, and try to break down emergence into more general and useful ideas. We talk about snowflakes and ant colonies, cellular automata and universe simulations, and the many weird ideas of Stephen Wolfram. I also offer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/emergent-complexity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emergent Complexity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,114,137,29,128],"tags":[65,112,24,172,4,30,120],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-documentaries","category-biology-ecology","category-history","category-physics","category-virtual-reality","tag-unreality","tag-biology","tag-consciousness","tag-emergence","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-virtual-reality","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1231,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/sean-carroll-the-passage-of-time-the-meaning-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":4258,"position":0},"title":"Sean Carroll | The Passage of Time &#038; the Meaning of Life","author":"admin","date":"April 25, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/7BH6XCRZad8?feature=share What is time? 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