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Tim Hampson
@tmmhampson.bsky.social
Associate at ⬤● Memocule
https://www.memocule.com
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August 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
17/17 Plants, people, AI, all part of a single unfolding pattern.
If you are imagining the future of life, this framework is for you.
Let’s rethink life from the ground up or from the energy up.
🌀🌿🧠💻
#Science #Innovation #DeepThinking
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
16/17 Biology becomes economy.
Ecology becomes design.
Life becomes a recursive thermodynamic journey.
#Thermodynamics #Economics
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
15/17 This 6-layer model is a taxonomy of pressure:
From energy flows to ideas, ecosystems to economies.
From first cell to first codebase, one story.
#BigHistory #UnifiedScience
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
14/17 The system is not a pyramid but a loop.
Higher layers reshape the lower:
AI redesigns agriculture.
Cognition reshapes climate.
Society rewires biology.
#SystemsThinking #FeedbackLoops
August 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
13/17 Are AI systems alive?
If life is organising energy and information to resist entropy, maybe yes, just on a different substrate. Perhaps not today, but tomorrow?
#AI #PhilosophyOfLife
August 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
12/17 💻 Layer 6: Design
Hypothetical but real.
Life that can redesign itself.
AI, synthetic biology, recursive code.
Not just biology, but intent.
#ArtificialIntelligence #SyntheticBiology
August 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
11/17 🧠 Layer 5: Cognition
Abstract thought, language, tools.
Life processes information at scale.
Organise, reflect, build across generations.
#Cognition #CulturalEvolution
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
10/17 🐝 Layer 4: Collectives
Communication enabled cooperation.
Colonies, swarms, hives.
Groups become units of survival.
#SocialEvolution #CollectiveIntelligence
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
9/17 This led to new layers of organisation: emergent, not guaranteed.
#Complexity #Emergence
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
8/17 🔁 The Great Transition.
Sexual reproduction introduced a new pressure: communication.
Life began to exchange information: from courtship to chemical signals.
#Communication #EvolutionaryBiology
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
7/17 Together, Layers 1-3 form the thermodynamic engine of life:
Capture, cycle, and consume.
This blueprint works on Earth and maybe beyond.
#Astrobiology #UniversalScience
August 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
6/17 🥩 Layer 3: Consolidators
Consume others to consolidate energy.
From insects to apex predators.
Increase mobility and complexity.
#FoodWeb #Biodiversity
August 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
5/17 ♻️ Layer 2: Recyclers
Break down waste and return nutrients.
They make ecosystems sustainable.
#Fungi #Sustainability
August 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
4/17 🌿 Layer 1: Producers
Capture external energy (sunlight, chemicals) → biomass.
Without them, nothing else works.
They dominate Earth's biomass as 80-90% of total
#Photosynthesis #Biomass
August 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
3/17 🔻 Layers 1–3: The Universal Ecosystem
Any stable biosphere must obey thermodynamics.
Energy in, energy out, materials recycled.
3 functional layers exist in every ecosystem.
#Thermodynamics #Ecosystems
August 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
2/17 Traditional biology groups organisms by genes.
But what if we grouped them by function: how they use energy, recycle matter, and process information?
A new lens for thinking about life itself.
#Evolution #SystemsThinking
August 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Page 1 of pretty much any philosophy book will show "objective truth" tends to be subjectively held. That's not to say objective truths don't exist, but typically they arise only after hard fought argument and frequently overturned. It's not as easy as this quote suggests
August 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM