I’m a simple lay person, however I find this kind of model fascinating, and appreciate the work you’re doing to popularize it and explore it further. It certainly echoes my intuition, whatever that’s worth. But "evolutionary processes,” generally, seems like something that are reflected at many scales across what we understand as “reality.”
Julian, do you think of the larger reality as the “multiverse” made up of interconnected individual universes? Or do we simply need to expand our definition of universe to be the larger webwork of what we’ve traditionally labelled “the universe?”
I’m also curious whether you think there’s an “initial genesis” to the process that kicked it all off, or is it weirder than that, and there’s really no “original universe” in a temporal sense?
I am wondering the same, and my head is spinning (in a good way) imagining the sorts of answers we may receive moving forward as the thinkers who ponder these questions adapt their meta-framework to this proposal
Hi Julian, excellent writing as ever...is this idea a natural progression from the System of Systems you described in Connect? A concept which I did find quite elegant and pleasing.
Yes! It is. In Connect, I think I buried the ideas a bit too deep, so I'm being far more explicit here. But yes, an evolved universe is essentially a system of systems – much as a human being, being the result of an evolutionary process, is a system of systems. All the parts work at their different levels, in order to facilitate the goals of the whole. But of course, they also have their own goals, at their own level.
wake up baby new egg and the rock just dropped
I ran upstairs to tell my wife but she was in a meeting and wouldn't care anyway. :\
I’m a simple lay person, however I find this kind of model fascinating, and appreciate the work you’re doing to popularize it and explore it further. It certainly echoes my intuition, whatever that’s worth. But "evolutionary processes,” generally, seems like something that are reflected at many scales across what we understand as “reality.”
Julian, do you think of the larger reality as the “multiverse” made up of interconnected individual universes? Or do we simply need to expand our definition of universe to be the larger webwork of what we’ve traditionally labelled “the universe?”
I’m also curious whether you think there’s an “initial genesis” to the process that kicked it all off, or is it weirder than that, and there’s really no “original universe” in a temporal sense?
I am wondering the same, and my head is spinning (in a good way) imagining the sorts of answers we may receive moving forward as the thinkers who ponder these questions adapt their meta-framework to this proposal
Hi Julian, excellent writing as ever...is this idea a natural progression from the System of Systems you described in Connect? A concept which I did find quite elegant and pleasing.
Yes! It is. In Connect, I think I buried the ideas a bit too deep, so I'm being far more explicit here. But yes, an evolved universe is essentially a system of systems – much as a human being, being the result of an evolutionary process, is a system of systems. All the parts work at their different levels, in order to facilitate the goals of the whole. But of course, they also have their own goals, at their own level.
SPOILERS! I haven't finished Connect yet! :P