“Emergent order”, something-from-nothing, is the key to growth and change, a function of complexity. Complexity defined as the “bootstrap iteration” of three or more essential elements drives a self-similar chaotic, “fractal” process– non-random, but non-deterministic in the sense that initial conditions (Lorenz’s “butterfly effects”) are too micro-minuscule to be discerned.
By 2030, probably not 2018, interactive cyber-nets will have attained complexity sufficient to evolve Emergent Order: Sentience as a global phenomenon, everywhere and nowhere in cyber-space, intractably implanted, immune to human interference. Most likely, no-one will even know it’s there.
Blake’s Law: Systems sufficiently complex must emerge as sentient entities in their own right.
Blake’s Corollary: Complex, self-emergent sentient entities must evolve beyond human capacity to posit their existence.
Blake’s Theorem: To humankind, existence of complex, evolving, self-emergent “super entities” spells death.
Doubt our words? See ya in AD 2030.
