Energy: entropy → chemistry → agriculture → fossil fuels → electricity
Information: DNA → neurons → language → writing → printing → computing → AI

A 3-month experiment in reverse-engineering civilization

The Creator's Stack

An engineer's 3-month journey through 9 layers of civilization — from atoms to AI — each layer built into an interactive experience.

3 months
9 layers
20+ interactive works
1 Creator's Sandbox
The Stack
7| Modern Complexity --- Networks, Fragility, Collapse
6| Knowledge & Institutions --- Emergent Order vs Designed Order
5| Agriculture & Cities --- Chain Reaction of Energy Surplus
4| Language --- The Phase Transition of Civilization
3| Cognition --- From Neurons to Cooperation
2| Life --- From Chemistry to Evolution
1| Physics --- Energy, Entropy, Time

The Layers

Apr – Jun 2026
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Complexity

Apr 2026

Why do simple rules produce complex behavior?

0-1 Emergence Lab 0-2 Scaling Laws Visualizer
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Physics

Apr–May 2026

How does complexity arise in a universe of increasing entropy?

1-1 Entropy Playground 1-2 Energy Conservation Simulator 1-3 Time Does Not Exist
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Life

May 2026

How do dead molecules become living systems?

2-1 Life Evolution 2-2 Natural Selection
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Cognition

Jun 2026

What does the brain actually do?

3-1 Neural Explorer 3-2 Swarm Intelligence
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Language

Jun–Jul 2026

Why is language the single biggest unlock?

4-1 Language Evolution 4-2 Information Encoding
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Agriculture & Cities

Jul 2026

Why did agriculture trigger civilization?

5-1 Agricultural Origins 5-2 City Emergence
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Knowledge & Institutions

Aug 2026

Is order emergent from below, or designed from above?

6-1 Commons Lab 6-2 Institution Lab
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Modern Complexity

Aug–Sep 2026

Why is our hyper-connected world so fragile? Is collapse fate, or can we design antifragility?

7-1 Network Resilience Lab 7-2 Complexity Collapse Simulator

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FINAL DESTINATION

The Creator's Sandbox

The final destination. Unlocks at the end of the journey. Play as the creator — build a civilization from a blank universe, one layer at a time.