This conception of Interconnection has been the culmination of several ideas and interests I've come across over my time here on the earth.
- In Video Games/Simulations
- Emergent Storytelling and Gameplay
- Procedural Generation
- Games with highly structured components, like the complementary Rock Paper Scissors thing going on in RTS games
- I had an idea when I was younger for an alien/xcom style game. More like a kitchen sink of alien games as one game. Not that it’s a practical game, but the idea of being able to access every layer of defending against aliens is cool, like starting at boots on the ground FPS, up to a squad based RTT style game, then to realtime/grand strategy, or even horizontally oriented stuff like a men in black alien checkpoint. The layers and hierarchy of organization are there
- Archetypes in games, like how each archetype is kind of a different overlap of a few different niches/areas.
- Modularity concepts
- Modular weapon systems, just as a general concept
- Programming has had a big influence too. Modeling the world within data structures has allowed me to see the relationships between things. Kind of “componentizing” the world.
- Roller coasters and the thrill elements that make them up, lots of modular principles there
- Concepts from Nature
- My interest in Ecosystems and the feedback loops within them
- Phylogenetic trees and general Phylogenesis
- The general hierarchy of the organization of life, like, how cells make up tissues, which make up organs, which make up organ groups, which make up an organism. Which then makes up ecosystems and larger social structures above them. Even larger than that too, with cosmic hiearchy, planets making up solar systems, making up galaxies, making up clusters, making up universes.
- Geography Map terms and general ecological classification. Biomes and ecotones and such. Like Minecraft Biome mods, the different sci-fi planet climates and such. Even that montane kind of zone, in places like Switzerland, above the tree line, but below where there is snow. So its just grass and streams and plants, no trees, or very little.
- In School
- Concepts emphasized by my undergrad discrete math class such as probability, stats, set theory, formal logic, etc.
- My complex systems class during my masters, which introduced me to concepts like fractals, percolation, self organization and emergence.
- Considering applying for that ecology minor back when I was starting college
- The network theory class I took in grad school was also excellent and the ideas in it, especially concepts like homophily, centrality, density, cliques, and the different scales of analysis
- In Technology
- Programming, Game Dev and Software Engineering has been a big influence too. Modeling the world within data structures has allowed me to see the relationships between things. Kind of “componentizing” the world, lots of inherent modularity too. Not to mention the large scale architectural stuff.
- Cybernetics with planned economies, like Project Cybersyn headed by Stafford Beer under Allende
- General decision support systems, like Cybersyn, but also like we have in large modern corporations with Walmart's Retail Link and countless similar, and even down to healthcare and emergency response decision support systems
- Linguistics and Etymological Evolution, tracing how a variety of factors effect how language is used and shaped over time in different nonlinear ways in different places
- TV Tropes
- Those career list things they would give you before the ACT that listed off all the different careers and categories they fall under
- The Dewey Decimal system and general information organization, different topics and areas and such.
- I've had a general enjoyment of categorization and organization, with anything really. From a young age with Transformers (the robots in disguise) and the archetypes they take on with the different body-forms and variants on each other, and then especially with video game genres and trying to understand the differences and overlaps in what is being defined by a genre and in what combination.
- The manner in which different genres of metal overlap and have the lines blurred between them. Even more so with electronic genres.
- General interest in organizing and categorizing information, starting with my red metal box I would carry with me in the car to keep me entertained, full of various pages from online wikis I printed out to go over and organize, then with my backpack of fabric bound notebooks with all kinds of ideas and thoughts, and all the notebooks I used freshman year that I hoped would supercede my old notebooks, then discovering PKMs with OneNote and finaly now arriving at Notion and experimenting with Obsidian