Conjecture

Human making is the one process on the planet that runs conception before construction, and this matters for our own thesis more than Part I notices. Nature is full of complex organisms and systems, and they existed before anyone understood how they worked; even agriculture emerged largely unconsciously, with humans altering phenotypes over long association without premeditation about consequences. True products are different: they are dreamed up in the minds of their inventors well before any prototype exists, so they have to be conceptualised before they can be conceived, whereas everything else evolves by trial and error. Hidalgo calls the results crystals of imagination. Imagination substitutes for search, which is exactly the capacity Part I says an ant colony lacks.

Coordination architecture