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Emergent Complexity

“milliards” means “billions” btw.

Here is Emergent Garden’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.

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Particle Life: https://sandbox-science.com/particle-life.
Universe Sandbox: https://universesandbox.com/
Lego Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djLyoDmSPF0
Big Bang: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12656/
Emergence Animation: https://www.pexels.com/video/an-artist-s-illustration-of-art…-25744130/
Ants Solving Maze: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hlyv…_maneuver/
Neuron Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIK9oXc5Wo.
Snowflake Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-PQk2-Po-g.
The Life Engine: https://thelifeengine.net.
Water Molecule Sim: https://twitter.com/EdgarGonzalezGT/status/1877078173910753452
Langton’s Ant Simulator: https://evolvecode.io/turmites/index.html.
Conway’s Game of Life: https://playgameoflife.com/
Recursive Game of Life: https://oimo.io/works/life/
A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
Stephen Wolfram Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8&list=PLdwvZsAHiS…9ChTYxtZsD
Complexity, A Guided Tour: https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitche…atfound-20
Wolfram Hypergraph Simulator: https://met4citizen.github.io/Hypergraph/
Atom Orbital Simulation: https://www.falstad.com/qmatom/
Lego Bonsai Alternate Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnuCOrCJojw.
Lego Blocks Made of Legos:
Tornado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcGFU_Hi9U
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: https://archive.org/details/cosmos_1980/COSMOS_01.mp4.
Terry Davis Quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qmkQGqpM8

My Music Guy: https://youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions?si=2P97LlROhNgQYOa
“Deliberate Thought“
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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What if Dark Energy Doesn’t Exist? New Theory Could Rewrite Cosmic Expansion

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the most intriguing open questions in modern physics. Current theories cannot fully account for this behavior using th

Cell type–specific spatiotemporal control of GFP-tagged protein degradation in mice

New: Alexandra Prado-Mantilla, Terry Lechler et al. develop a mouse line to allow cell type–specific, rapid, and reversible degradation of GFP-tagged proteins.

Prado-Mantilla et al. develop a mouse line to allow cell type–specific, rapid, and reversible degradation of GFP-tagged proteins. Using this line, they dem.

A Mysterious Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Grown Nearly Half the Size of Europe

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven by dynamic processes deep within the planet’s core. Drawing on 11 years of magnetic field data collected by the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, resea

AMD at CES® 2026

Join AMD Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Lisa Su, for her keynote at CES 2026, the most powerful technology event in the world. Dr. Su returns to the CES stage in Las Vegas to highlight, alongside partners and customers, the AMD vision for delivering future AI solutions – from cloud to enterprise, edge and devices.

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Dopamine and Mood in Psychotic Disorders: An 18F-DOPA PET Study

Dopamine synthesis capacity is reduced in psychosis with depression compared to mixed/mania syndromes, while positive psychotic symptoms correlate with higher dopamine synthesis in the associative striatum.

Importance There is limited neurobiological or trial evidence guiding treatment of comorbid affective syndromes in psychotic disorders. Given the use of dopamine-blocking antipsychotics, understanding dopamine function across these mood states is warranted.

Objective To test for differences in dopamine synthesis capacity (Kicer) between affective syndromes across psychotic disorders and for association with psychotic symptom severity.

Design, Setting, and Participants In this cross-sectional study using fluorine F 18–labeled fluorodopa (18 F-DOPA) positron emission tomography (PET), individuals with first-episode psychosis and comorbid affective syndromes, including a current major depressive episode (MDE) or mixed/mania syndromes, and matched controls were recruited from early intervention services in inner-city London, United Kingdom. Data were collected from March 2013 to February 2022 and analyzed from October 1, 2023, to January 1, 2025.

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