Concept · Cosmos
The Drake equation
Each term is another Local-Rule-to-Global-Form threshold (chemistry to life to complexity to intelligence to detectable technology); small real probabilities compounding multiplicatively across a chain, made vivid at the largest scale available.
Lineage
- Grows out of
- Local Rule · Global Form
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Four — The Ground UnderneathSystems Theory FoundationsStocks, flows, and feedback loops — the formal machinery underneath the leverage ladder, and the recursion that makes the whole system fractal.