Fragments Part 3: Collective Intelligence (Includes Summary of Parts 1&2)

This session continues our exploration into how fragments become agents — shifting the lens toward collective intelligence.

Whether or not you attended the previous Fragments sessions, you’re welcome here. We’ll begin with a brief recap of key ideas and provide access to optional background materials so everyone can follow and contribute meaningfully.

The focus this time:

• How individual systems or agents give rise to coordinated intelligence across scales
• What we can learn from the work of Michael Levin (morphogenesis, cellular networks) and Stephen Wolfram (computational irreducibility, emergent complexity)
• How these ideas relate to the nature of agency, semantic structure, and the path from distributed fragments to coherent collective behavior

There will be a short presentation and framing, followed by open discussion.

This session is part of the Fragments series, but designed to be accessible even if this is your first one.