Life ≙ Feedback Loops A spark in the noise. From the first self‑replicating strand to a hi‑frequency trading bot, […]

Markets were meant to coordinate financial information. Their evolution parallels advances in information technology—yet today prices often diverge […]

Chapters 1–3 argued that life, mind, and culture scale whenever internal information loops beat external shocks. Here we […]

6.1 Two continental firewalls The Sahara and the Himalayas carve Eurasia into independent information basins. The Himalayas—guarded by […]

There are vastly more micro-states of disorder than of order; in simpler words, there are many more ways […]

7.1 The European Miracle — Man’s Domestication of Work I’m just a lonesome traveler,The Great Historical BumHighly educated […]

12.1 PLATO: that friendly orange glow The PLATO computer system is something that you probably have never heard […]

11.0 From Postmodern to Post-Postmodern The official post-postmodern year is 2015; the catalytic technology is the pocket computer on […]

The official postmodern year – 1964.The official postmodern technology – the television. 1964 is the hinge year when […]

In Chapters 1–7 we watched symbolic systems scale from cells to empires; here we follow that scaling to […]

Chapters 1 argued that life, mind, and culture all hinge on feedback loops that keep internal models in […]

We just saw how renormalised communication clusters scale from family to empire. Rome provides history’s cleanest test-case of […]

What is life? As to the question, “What is life?” the first answer is that life is rare—or […]