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Network reforming to match a new season, new weather, a new world paradigm. Information is cheaper, the temperature is rising. The network liquidized. Capitalizing on unstable equilibrium to capture energy. The hive is breathing. The networks are learning to strata on demand.
Solidifying Sugar from solution laces of Kracie gummy candy and tendrils of chocolate resin. A mixed bag of snow and sleet and hail and rain, and drizzles of drips and drops, condensate and formulates. A process of growth and fermentation, of solar evaporation.
Distributed functions with multiple outputs. A self-aligning network of strange attractors. An assemblage. Low cost information flow is making irrelevant the rituals that maintained hierarchical constructs. Fluid networks react faster to risk. The herd forms them with identities.
Identities are atomizing. No, Melting. Evaporative cooling. Those who exist at Keegan’s stage five can flow with the tides of memes. Or a Taleb metaphor: as we exercise our cultural muscles, the tearing of cultural ritual is painful and we react in kind. Hopefully we can keep up.
Otherwise it ends up with a runaway system, a predator/prey or parasite/host model that blows up. A Punctuated Equilibrium. Not all invasive species are burden, some will naturalize and find harmony in the ecosystem. But others burn thru it like fire.
The blind scientists mapping the elephant; except scientists are ants, and the elephant is their territory: They are foraging for food. Bees addicted to caffeine a flower uses to drug them, will evolve to exploit the flower in return — biting at the base to get their high instead
Networks bubbling like billiard balls in a soup. Colliding with each other, forming crystallized lattices, only to disperse yet again as another bubble forms. Witnessing the fluid-ization of networks in the dispersal, the dispersion, the distribution, the formation of norms.
“When the rayleigh number for the system reaches 1708 it becomes unstable and Bernard cells can form”chaosRayleigh-Taylor InstabilitySaffman-Taylor InstabilityA bottle of oobleck under pressure.A chemomechanical clock.Tick-tock Tick-tock. Briggs-Rausher Oscillating Reaction
Boiling at the triple point. Phase change.The greasing of hands, the greasing of cogs, greasing the wheels of progress, greasing the machines of man.Bacteria in the agar coalescing around resources.This is the dispersal of the means of production.
Slow then quick.“Technology is a bad carver”, putting salt on slime-mold slugs, and yet the ooze that results is where magic lies.Becoming the slime mold within the Dyson Sphere, the belly of the robot the digestive tract of the AI.The Unfinished opus.
Forming, unforming, reforming. the coding, decoding, and recoding of the assemblage. Continuously reforming gradients in the environment.Socialnet as filter. Shape as feedback loops. Directionality like neurons. A layered mealy machine powered by attention/recombinatory noise.
The vibration nervous rhythm of synchronizing slime.The roving trails of ants, emerging like ephemeral tendrils of the hive mind.A river of ants. The crystallization of rhizomatic learning networks.Standing waves in the vibration of sand and earthworks.
Before we moved the data to the program, now we are moving programs to the data.Each ant a sovereign, and yet we are still stronger together.Loose fitting boundaries of life, a form of collaborative meaning making.The universe making fun of itself.Aeternitas non humanus erit.
I can’t find the words to explain myself, so instead I give you a mash of mixed metaphor.Maybe you can see the patterns in the map.The narratives in the territory, and help me along the journey that I have yet to take.Welcome to how the hotdogs are made.
A map of my thoughts.A literal stream of consciousness collected over many months.https://t.co/CsJB76QGuq