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Nature's Operating System: A Call to Compute Together
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Reframes nature itself as a computational substrate that has been processing information at planetary scale for billions of years, and proposes a ‘Compute Together’ architecture where engineered AI joins—rather than opposes—nature’s own algorithms.
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@misc{anderson_2026_natures_operating_system,
author = {Jed Anderson},
title = {Nature's Operating System: A Call to Compute Together},
year = {2026},
url = {https://jedanderson.org/essays/natures-operating-system},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
} APA
Anderson, J. (2026). Nature's Operating System: A Call to Compute Together. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/essays/natures-operating-system
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Anderson, Jed. "Nature's Operating System: A Call to Compute Together." Jed Anderson, May 13, 2026, https://jedanderson.org/essays/natures-operating-system.