Firelight Logic is dedicated to practicing and teaching emergeneering—a portmanteau of emergence and engineering. Emergence refers to the process of separate, individual parts interacting and producing behaviors or properties that are visible only in the system as a whole. As emergeneers, we apply and teach an iterative design approach [1] that gradually shapes system behaviors and properties towards positive emergence by systematically exposing and controlling negative emergence, relative to ethical design intent.
Emergence engineering may be considered a lens for viewing certain activities of systems engineering. It pays particular attention to patterns that emerge from interacting software, hardware, people, processes, and/or organizations across a range of application areas and lifecycle phases, drawing on insights from the natural sciences.
The name "Firelight Logic" symbolizes the fusion of creativity and analytical rigor at the heart of our work. "Firelight" evokes the glow of a campfire, around which people have gathered for millennia to share stories, knowledge, and traditions. "Logic" represents the structured reasoning and problem-solving that underpin our activities like engineering and everyday decision-making. We leverage both of these innate human faculties, together with modern-era tools that automate the heaviest and most time-consuming parts of our work, to design systems that harness positive patterns of emergence and control negative patterns of emergence.
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[1] Giammarco, Kristin. 2022. "Exposing and Controlling Emergent Behaviors Using Models with Human Reasoning," In Emergent Behavior in System of Systems Engineering, edited by Larry Rainey and O. Thomas Holland. pp. 23-61. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
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