On Populating - A Philosophical Perspective of the Fractalization of Humanity
Abstract
When is the last time you played a game that gave you a feeling of "full control"? This lyric-philosophical essay begins with a friend's astonishment at an online game, where each player's move goes to a server and is reflected back to everyone whether they see it or not, read as a picture of a shared world: each of us sees one corner, and reality is every corner held together. From *Populous*, an early god game, and the *Civilization* series, whose technology tree ties older ideas into new ones, it draws the binding third and the imaginary borders that divide people who began with one goal, life. The relativity of simultaneity makes "at the same time" a line drawn through the clock, and Babel becomes humanity's long division, each border carrying someone's Intent. In the framework's notation, a lens that measures nothing, the gathering is Ψ, and realigning turns perspectives toward a shared facing while each keeps its own intensity. A 2026 *Civilization VII* update that restored an older way to play leads to the answer: realign the fractalization, for there is no loss in coherence.
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BibTeX
@misc{johnson2026populating,
title = {{On Populating - A Philosophical Perspective of the Fractalization of Humanity}},
author = {Jamison Johnson},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23556754},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23556754},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On Populating - A Philosophical Perspective of the Fractalization of Humanity
AU - Jamison Johnson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/22
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23556754
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23556754
AB - When is the last time you played a game that gave you a feeling of "full control"? This lyric-philosophical essay begins with a friend's astonishment at an online game, where each player's move goes to a server and is reflected back to everyone whether they see it or not, read as a picture of a shared world: each of us sees one corner, and reality is every corner held together. From *Populous*, an early god game, and the *Civilization* series, whose technology tree ties older ideas into new ones, it draws the binding third and the imaginary borders that divide people who began with one goal, life. The relativity of simultaneity makes "at the same time" a line drawn through the clock, and Babel becomes humanity's long division, each border carrying someone's Intent. In the framework's notation, a lens that measures nothing, the gathering is Ψ, and realigning turns perspectives toward a shared facing while each keeps its own intensity. A 2026 *Civilization VII* update that restored an older way to play leads to the answer: realign the fractalization, for there is no loss in coherence.
ER -