#peer complexity

Friday 08 August 2025

Grand Strategy Newsletter

The View from Oregon – 353

How many Charlemagnes are there?

…in which I discuss evolutionary convergence, the rare Earth hypothesis, the rare humanoid hypothesis, peer complexity, historical convergence, a disturbing SETI transmission, being “close enough” to be “the same,” cosmological-scale cyclical history, inevitability, the Fermi paradox, a universe full of Caesars and Charlemagnes, and The Precipice…

Substack: https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/how-many-charlemagnes-are-there

Medium: https://jnnielsen.medium.com/how-many-charlemagnes-are-there-162066a89d12

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_View_from_Oregon/comments/1mrndrm/how_many_charlemagnes_are_there/

Friday 31 January 2025

Grand Strategy Newsletter

The View from Oregon – 326

Emergent Complexity Pluralism

…in which I discuss my paper “Peer Complexity in Big History,” its long road to publication, emergent complexity pluralism, stellar evolution, macromolecules, the imaginative stumbling block to understanding alternative complexity, and our Lovecraftian universe…

Substack: https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/emergent-complexity-pluralism

Medium: https://jnnielsen.medium.com/emergent-complexity-pluralism-202f9ff9dd0b

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_View_from_Oregon/comments/1ii7uqi/emergent_complexity_pluralism/

This newsletter discusses my paper that appeared recently:

Nielsen, J. N. (2024). Peer Complexity in Big History. Journal of Big History, VIII(1); 83-98.

DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i1.8111