Fluoddity

spores.garden

Curate your ideas, collect flowers, and discover other gardens.

Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point…

Lightcone Research

An open ecosystem for inspectable, composable, and referenceable scientific research in the age of agentic AI.

sparklepets

A cute & cozy virtual world powered the Atmosphere. Adopt a lil pal, care for them and explore together!

Gaia's Garden Guest House in Auroville | garden | Gaia's Garden Guest House, Auroville Road, Auroville, Pondicherry, India

Gaia’s Garden Guest House has been part of this evolving Auroville experiment in human progress for the past 27 years. Such aspiration is not limited to residents of Auroville - visitors and guests from all over the world come here to sample what other possibilities life offers, apart from the mundane and the known. #gaiasgarden

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

mata.garden

The garden is where we grow seeds of ideas. Either coming through a creative thought or a technological development we consider these live, multi-dimensional, interactive sketches or maquettes. It's important to have ideas that have no specific functional end but are there only to evolve and mutate into others. This is our place to do that.

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns—phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries—a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology—a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.

Anthropic's Mythos is a wake up call, but experts say the era of AI-driven hacking is already here | Fortune

Anthropic is limiting access to Mythos, but experts say similar capabilities are already in reach.

Matter and Desire

An Erotic Ecology

The Object Model in Livelymerge

A look under the hood of Livelymerge.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.