EMERGENT PRACTISE

In an EMERGENT SCIENCE, one doesn't necessarily know what one's current modus operandi is, or what the current status of the research is. One might not even know what research project one is currently engaged in. This, I believe, is true of an EMERGENT SCIENCE.

The scientific research is EMERGENT in the sense that it is AMBIENT: It waits and listens, there is no shouting. One also works in an ITERATED manner: One continuously re-designs experiments and starts from scratch often. In fact, the entire science starts from scratch at almost every moment. There is lots of pivoting.

It is also ANTICIPATORY. It has no full-blown specification of what it is doing. It sits and listens, waits for answers to come. It is SPECULATIVE, yet the agent actively searches through relevant search spaces for new avenues, and so involves a process of DISCOVERY. One DISCOVERS the Emergent Science as it arrives.

Also, Everyone is not always on the same page, because no one is on any given page. It is NON-LINEAR. The Artist-as-Interface discovery agent listens on Port X, iterating, capturing ambient flows.


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