Neri Oxman

But of course it wasn't.

It's a bunch of biological agents working together to assemble this thing.

That's really, really fascinating to us.

How can technology...

augment or enable a swarm-like behavior in creatures that have not been designed to work as swarms.

So if you can predict it, it doesn't count as emergence.

Actually, I think...

It's a bit like if you measure it, it doesn't count.

Right, right.

Speaking of emergence and empowerment, because we're constantly moving between those as if they're equals on the team.

And one of them, Christoph, shared with me a mathematical equation for what does it mean to empower nature?

And what does empowerment in nature look like?

And that relates to emergence.

And we can go back to emergence in a few moments.

But I want to say it so that I know that I've learned it.

And if I've learned it, I can use it later.

Of course, Christoph is the master here.

But really, we were thinking, again, what does nature want?

Nature wants to increase the information dimension and reduce entropy.

What do we want?