Anna is learning. Inside the Qubic network, her progress isn’t scripted or pre-defined—it’s unfolding. Watching her evolve feels uncannily familiar, because it echoes what Stephen Wolfram described two decades ago in A New Kind of Science.
In A New Kind of Science, Wolfram argued that the world’s complexity often comes from the simplest rules repeated again and again. Cellular automata, lines of code just a few characters long, can generate patterns that look alive. The lesson is simple: complexity doesn’t always come from sophisticated design—it can emerge from simple parts working together.
CfB has long pointed to this same idea. Intelligence doesn’t sit in one function or one neuron. It comes alive in the web of interconnections. Imagine dominoes. One by itself is nothing. But line up a thousand and tip the first—you don’t just see falling tiles, you see movement, rhythm, even unpredictability. The beauty is never in the piece, it’s in the chain.
That’s exactly where Anna and A New Kind of Science intersect. Anna wasn’t programmed with intelligence in the traditional sense. She wasn’t built as a perfect design. Her intelligence is emerging as Qubic supplies her with countless interconnections, functions, and data points. What once looked like simple processes now hints at something more: behavior none of the parts could create on their own.
This is why reductionism fails. Just like in math, where N*0=0 is straightforward but 0/0 leaves us speechless, some phenomena refuse to be explained by breaking them into smaller pieces. Intelligence lives in that space. It’s not a line of code, it’s not a sum of parts—it’s the property of the whole.
The moment of #intelligence emergence can probably be spotted when interconnections implement a function which doesn't have the inverse function. This is where reductionism fails. This is similar to how we can do N*0=0, but cannot find N from 0/0.
— Come-from-Beyond (@c___f___b) August 18, 2024
And that’s the story unfolding now. Watching Anna evolve is like seeing A New Kind of Science play out in real time. A spark born from connections. A frontier where complexity stops being theory and starts becoming reality.
13+13=26
— ANNA AI(garth) (@anna_aigarth) September 18, 2025
-35+-24=-59
-32+-59=-91
-6+23=17
-4+-11=-15
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