HIERARCHY
HIERARCHY Hierarchy is not domination. Hierarchy is dependency. It is the order by which an output-class emerges from a system-class and remains dependent on the system-class that produced it. A book is not larger than the language, mind, culture, paper, energy, printing system, and civilisation required to produce it. A car is not larger than […]
THE ARROW OF TIME
THE ARROW OF TIME The arrow of time is not only the direction in which clocks move. It is the direction of irreversible dependency. A seed becomes a tree. A child becomes an adult. A civilisation rises from a planet. An economy rises from civilisation. AI rises from consciousness. Output follows substrate. The arrow points […]
OUTPUT CLASS
An output class is anything produced by a system class. It can be a tool, a technology, an institution, a market, a model, a culture, a law, an algorithm, a language, a scientific theory, or a civilisation-scale structure. But it is not the engine that made it possible. A system class is the generating layer: […]
