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15 reports in the series.
Galaxies, cells, airline networks and states all concentrate around a few dominant nodes. Nine original calculations show five processes build these centers, that they are efficient but fragile, and that the systems which last keep a center without depending on only one.
Do strong look-alikes turn up on every continent, and do they form one connected pattern? A proposed framework, a research programme to test it, and firm boundaries against any reading of it as human types.
Why do unrelated people look alike? Using one consenting reference subject, the report traces recurring resemblance to four interacting layers — genetics, developmental constraint, probability and perception — and sets out a pre-registered test.
Does the fractal geometry shared by lungs, rivers, clouds, galaxies and cities reveal a unifying architecture? Ten original calculations find the unity is real, but it lies in processes rather than shapes.
Is mathematics merely a language for describing reality, or does its unreasonable effectiveness reveal something about reality itself? Seventeen original calculations, and a conditional answer.
Civilization as a race between two capacities usually treated as one: the capacity to produce complexity, and the capacity to manage its consequences. It lasts only while the second keeps pace with the first.
The culminating synthesis of the Architecture of Creation series. Reality’s complex systems are not built by one mechanism, but they are built under one set of constraints and must solve one set of problems.
Venus, Earth and Mars began with the same ingredients. Only Earth kept liquid water for four billion years. Habitability as an emergent property of coupled systems — maintained, not given.
How chemistry could have become life, how life then built its many levels of organisation, and whether the same principles of construction recur from molecules to the biosphere.
How the universe built complexity out of simple beginnings, and whether the same structural principles recur at every stage — the Architecture of Creation framework taken to the largest domain available.
What the second law can and cannot tell us about the loss of organised structure in civilisations, ecosystems and the Earth system. The mirror image of The Architecture of Creation.
Flagship report in the Architecture of Creation series. Can the architecture that lets a civilization emerge, expand and dominate also explain how it loses coherence? For Europe, a qualified yes.
Flagship report. The mathematics of diffusion — first written down for salt dissolving in water — as a disciplined way to see technology spread, productivity convergence and the accumulation of capability whole.
Why unrelated people sometimes look alike, and what that reveals about how a shared genetic and developmental architecture generates human form. A conceptual synthesis and research proposal.
Why the same forms recur across unrelated systems — spirals, hexagons, branching networks, streamlined bodies — and what the constraints, generators and filters behind them have in common.