Emergent Complexity
Emergent Garden
Nov 22, 2025 13:00
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"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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~SOURCES~
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-artificial-intelligence-ai-this-video-explores-how-ai-can-be-used-advance-biology-and-protein-folding-it-was-created-by-twistedpoly-as-part-of-the-visualisi-25744130/
Ants Solving Maze: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hlyvmw/ants_making_a_smart_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://x.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=PLdwvZsAHiSKvHTqcoqGp-mv9ChTYxtZsD
Complexity, A Guided Tour: https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitchell/dp/0199798109
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 Made of Legos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cesMmupaPc
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://www.youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions
"Deliberate Thought"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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