New Nature
Description
Protocolized:
""It seems that we have, then, a durable coordination primitive that has emerged, naturally and otherwise, again and again in complex systems comprising animals, peoples, robots, code, and the marks they leave on and around the world. It has a certain inevitability to it. At the Protocol Institute, we call this New Nature:
New Nature is regimes of reality governed by technologically mediated laws that are nearly as inviolable, immutable, and persistent as those of nature.
The 2026 Protocol Symposium theme, as well as its headline organizational mandate overall, is to Invent New Nature: taking the live, perplexing, protean forces shaping our cyborg future and stewarding them out of their conceptual cradles – in much the way that Alexander von Humboldt gathered measurements from botany, geology, meteorology and astronomy into a single interconnected picture of the natural world, first in the Naturgemälde of 1807 and then across the five volumes of Kosmos between 1845 and 1862.
SIGFPT has taken up the task of considering stigmergy as New Nature. When does it arise? When does it work? Above all, how can stigmergy be used safely and robustly, as a layer to rely upon for even more strange and beautiful coordinating behavior?"
(https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/securing-stigmergic-systems)