11.5 Images

A map of all the SeedPods as defined in this build
1.1
The caloric theory of heat: a map that explained everything
Wikimedia Commons 2.1
The old map we used to think was right
Wikimedia Commons 2.2
The word just hides more than it reveals
Wikimedia Commons 2.3
A geode opened: the inside revealed
Wikimedia Commons 2.4
Superconductivity: emergent behaviour from sheer quantity
Wikimedia Commons 2.5
Structure from randomness: a lightning branch
Wikimedia Commons 2.6
The cell that makes itself: autopoiesis under the microscope
Wikimedia Commons 2.7
The electromagnetic field made visible in iron filings
Wikimedia Commons 3.1
The double-slit interference pattern
Wikimedia Commons 3.2
Fourier harmonics: the overtone series underlying musical consonance
Wikimedia Commons 3.3
The Harmonic Clock
author 3.3
The Mandelbrot Set
Wikipedia 3.3
Benford's law: simpler numbers appear first in natural data
Wikimedia Commons 3.4
The Mandelbrot boundary: the edge where everything happens
Wikimedia Commons 3.5
A music automaton: one rule
endlessly unfolding 3.6
A worn boulder path: each step almost the same as the last
Wikimedia Commons 3.7
Feynman diagram: reality as discrete particle interaction events
Wikimedia Commons 4.1
Vacuum fluctuations: the ground state is not empty
Wikimedia Commons 4.2
A light beam: from its point of view
no journey 4.3
The cosmic web: the network that experiences itself
Wikimedia Commons 4.4
The cosmic microwave background: the sky as fossil record
Wikimedia Commons 4.5
The Hubble deep field: you are the universe noticing something
Wikimedia Commons 4.6
Feedback control system: the output tells you nothing about the process
Wikimedia Commons 5.1
The alien we built
Wikimedia Commons 5.2
A neural network as a field having occasions
Wikimedia Commons 5.3
Attention mechanism: the entire past simultaneously present
Wikimedia Commons 5.4
The wide channel: fluent output
uncertain depth 5.5
AAC communication device: channel constraint is not a capacity limit
Wikimedia Commons 5.6
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Joseph Wright of Derby
1768) 5.7
Cognitive architecture for conscious AI: feeling and functioning converge
Wikimedia Commons 5.8
Valence-arousal circumplex: feeling mapped to functional dimensions
Wikimedia Commons 5.9
Max Planck: science advances one funeral at a time
Wikimedia Commons 6.1
Ideas spreading through a group like magnetic domains
Wikimedia Commons 6.2
Cave paintings: reality made of stories
Wikimedia Commons 6.3
Two things true at once: the Necker cube
Wikimedia Commons 6.4
The Mandelbrot set: self-reference built from simple recursion
Wikimedia Commons 6.5
The Penrose arrow: pointing somewhere unexpected
Wikimedia Commons 6.6
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Milo Winter 1919 6.7
The manicule
an arrow that needs a shared world to land in 6.8
A barbershop quartet on a stage
four voices locked into one 6.9
Refraction at a prism
one light many paths 7.1
Center-surround receptive field: the retina thinks before the brain
Wikimedia Commons 7.2
Edge-detection filter: artificial networks rediscover retinal computation
Wikimedia Commons 7.3
Munsell hue wheel: the mind closes the spectrum into a circle
Wikimedia Commons 7.4
Lissajous figure: harmonic frequency ratios made visible
Wikimedia Commons 7.5
Potential energy surface: two opposite meanings of stability
Wikimedia Commons 7.6
The golden ratio in nature: beauty and mathematics
Wikimedia Commons 7.7
Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution: temperature as molecular kinetic energy
Wikimedia Commons 7.8
Soap bubble: the surface is the inside
Wikimedia Commons 8.1
A soap bubble: recognition
not metaphor 8.2
Leibniz's I Ching hexagram diagram of 1701
Wikimedia Commons 8.3
CNOT quantum gate: spacetime as emergent information structure
Wikimedia Commons 8.4
Nested levels: the architecture of assembly
Wikimedia Commons 8.5
The cell membrane
a boundary that is itself a structure 8.6
The ghost in the machine: clockwork mechanism
Wikimedia Commons 8.8
Organism enacting its world through active engagement
Wikimedia Commons 8.9
Cantor's dust: discrete and continuous as a false dichotomy
Wikimedia Commons 9.1
Standing wave harmonics: the Born rule as harmonic measure
Wikimedia Commons 9.2
Branching numbers as finite dice at each Mandelbrot node
Wikimedia Commons 9.3
Darwin's first tree sketch: branching as the algebra of choice
Wikimedia Commons 9.4
Many worlds: parallel quantum branches as evolutionary experiments
Wikimedia Commons 9.5
Julia set: neural network state space as fractal geometry
Wikimedia Commons 9.6
Superposition in high-dimensional neural representations
Wikimedia Commons 9.7
High-dimensional geometry: virtual dimensions
Wikimedia Commons 9.8
A snowflake: Mandelbrot structure in physical crystals
Wikimedia Commons 9.9
WMAP cosmic microwave background: the universe's baby picture
Wikimedia Commons 9.10
Brain activity preceding a voluntary action: the Libet experiment
Wikimedia Commons 10.1
Bayesian phylogenetic tree: thought as rapid evolutionary selection
Wikimedia Commons 10.2
Waddington's epigenetic landscape: learned behaviour becoming hardwired
Wikimedia Commons 10.3
A city seen from above: a society of occasions
Wikimedia Commons 10.4
Reaching for the sun
intention before mind 10.5
Lorenz attractor: God as initial condition and cosmic attractor
Wikimedia Commons 10.6
Hubble morphological sequence: each galaxy as a thread of cosmic evolution
Wikimedia Commons 10.7
Cosmic web: galaxy filaments as structural homologs of neural networks
Wikimedia Commons 10.8
Minkowski spacetime diagram: consciousness as an orthogonal dimension
Wikimedia Commons 10.9
Escher's drawing hands: the strange loop that contains itself
Wikimedia Commons 10.10
Mercury pours and merges
boundaries dissolve 10.11
EEG alpha rhythm: consciousness arriving in discrete neural oscillations
Wikimedia Commons 10.12