Hi welcome to this week's edition of PHQ questions from the personality

hacker community my name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm Antonia Dodge and

Addison let's get right to our question today. Hi, Joel and Antonia.

First, I simply cannot give your podcast enough praise.

Thank you both for giving me some truly fantastic insight

and ideas into myself and others.

Second, I think your page should have a donate function for people like myself, poor grad students,

who cannot afford to buy a course but would nonetheless like to show our appreciation with a small contribution.

Third, I had the most beautiful idea this week inspired by your podcast.

I have no one to share it with,

for I don't know anyone familiar with both emergent systems and

youngie in theory.

If you don't understand it, it's okay.

Having one of those I and FJ moments where I can't just find the right words, but I'm working on it.

The quote is from Robert Langlan's book, A Different Universe.

He describes how the fundamental laws of physics themselves are emergent. At the end of the book he made a music analogy.

It struck a chord in me, yes pun intended. I have seen musical references

popping up all over the place connected with emergence.

Reading this quote is when it clicked, the circle of fifths.

I attached a drawing of the idea.

In a nutshell, there are four parts. Part one. Our plot is the dominant inferior dynamic.

The inferior drives the dominant. We see this in nature too.

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