http://programmer.ie/tags/flux/ Recent content in Flux on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:47:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/22-is-the-crystal-a-thing-or-a-flow/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:47:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/22-is-the-crystal-a-thing-or-a-flow/ <p>Chapter 21 ended with a question that sounded obvious.</p> <p>Is there actually one thing here?</p> <p>For most of the book, we had spoken naturally about:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>the crystal </span></span></code></pre></div><p>as though the noun had already been earned.</p> <p>There was a connected occupied structure.</p> <p>It grew.</p> <p>It could be perturbed.</p> <p>It could carry historical material.</p> <p>It could lose material.</p> <p>Lost sites could be reoccupied.</p> <p>Under finite computational opportunity, large amounts of material could turn over while the process continued.</p>