Emissary's Guide To Worlding

new container projects that give the World further vehicles of expression and expose the generative potential of the World.

When our finite games are won and done, what is strange is that we don’t exit back into base Reality. We wake up in a field of infinite games that perpetually mediate our contact with base Reality. We choose to live in these infinite games because they give us leverage, structure, and meaning over a base Reality that is indifferent to our physical

a World can express itself in anything. This is its freedom. But this freedom doesn’t mean freedom from containers. It means freedom to choose a container.

A World is an artificial living thing, but a living thing nonetheless. It is ongoing, absorbs change, and attracts players to help perpetuate it.

A key consideration when choosing a container is whether it should be declarative (a novel, a movie, a sermon), or interactive (a car, a restaurant, a baby), or something in between (a video game, a ritual, a theme park, AI).

The Hacker sees through the veil of man-made worlds and glimpses a Reality Operating System (RealityOS) pulsating with possibilities to tinker with. The Hacker believes that every object, every social structure, every system contains a core innovation that has been dialled down, dressed up and packaged for an all-too-human agenda.

Meaning cannot exist in a void.

People don’t just want the spark of a World, they expect to discover a World fully formed, inhabit its complexities, believe in its potentiality, and continue to generate meaning from it.

Worlding is firstly the act of creating a life, then secondly letting that life live itself. The first part is about achieving Aliveness. The second part is about granting Autonomy.

By stripping down existing worlds to their underlying systems and rules, and by refusing the seduction of meaning, the Hacker sacrilegiously discovers the actual and effective means to give the World its magic power. Great hacks, whether a law of physics or a flaw in security, are the basis of new experiences and new modes of expression that can ch