The attached video by @blakeprof.bsky.social, fascinating, explains in a non-technical, visual and animated way what emergent complexity is and how we can harness it.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqU...

I used to do these explorations (once upon a time): instead of drawing by hand, I would write the code that drew for me. It was a beautiful period that I never stop thinking about daily.

A generative, algorithmic vision of creativity can be an important tool for confronting the complexity of modern times.

But it's only by abandoning fine control and equipping ourselves with generous reserves of patience that we can guide an experimental exploratory process to reveal new, useful solutions that are unimaginable through more linear and traditional paths.

Curation—the ability to observe, filter, and combine an enormous quantity of possible solutions—opens the door to generative creativity, to unexpected solutions, to astonishing surprise.

In a world that changes even as we try to understand it, we can equip ourselves with methods and tools powered by the same principles as nature: the interaction of infinite elementary components that generate an abundance of opportunities.

Yet an irresolvable tension remains: creativity requires absolute solitude, but writing, by definition, implies a reader.

Antidotes exist. Intentional solitude. Music that masks the world. Writing for thirty minutes without being able to correct. Or the rare company of those who don't make us feel observed. Protecting spaces where the inner judge has no access is not a luxury: it's thought maintenance.

At that point thought changes nature: instead of being born, it begins to defend itself.

Social awareness is inevitable—we live immersed in others. But when it becomes interior surveillance, the flow turns to stone.

When the question "what will they think?" appears, the party ends. Self-censorship enters the scene like a Shakespearean character who talks too much. It models the social world inside our heads, simulates judgments, anticipates criticism.

The value lies in the purity of the flow. A mind that moves without constraints is more honest, more curious, more capable of composing connections that would otherwise evaporate.

But the fundamental condition remains the same: no one must be watching.

In journals, in private notes, on the phone's keyboard: we can say everything. Desires, obsessions, awkwardness. Here consciousness stops asking for permission.

How much of the change is real transformation, and how much is only ceremony of renewal?

Every writing tool suggests a certain kind of thinking, a length, a tone, a rhythm. A handle invites pulling. A button asks to be pressed. In the same way, a space for writing proposes a form to thoughts. These are not just technical limits. They are cognitive architectures.

I could be interested. Can you send me a link to a digital copy of the paper?