This essay will try to reconcile a“top-down” and “bottom-up” point of view of creation. By “top-down”, I am referring to the notion of an agent with free-will that manipulates its environment in order to reach a desired goal. By “bottom-up”, I am referring to a deterministic system that follows logic operations. Computer programs will be used to reconcile these two points of view, and the concept of “emergence” can be seen as a bridge between them.
Jonathan Khanlian