Living Puzzle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar31_Post.mp3 Life is a strange thing. Nobody knows for sure what it is. Sure, we can describe life compared to non-life. Life moves around, changes, consumes energy. One thing about life is it is an example of an “emergent system.” You can study oxygen until you’re blue in […]
Emergent Soul Theory
Unconscious Influence Cialdini has long studied the forces of influence that exist outside of our conscious awareness. The most common is social proof, but this one is a bit tricky, since everybody knows what social proof is, and every tends to try to leverage social proof in their favor. But all of us […]
Emergent Financial Parasites
Black Jack System Before the advent and widespread use of facial recognition technology, a group of MIT students developed a very lucrative blackjack system. They made a movie about it, but the movie was necessarily altered to make room for good guys and bad guys and back stories and character arcs. But the […]