‘The world is a generative artwork,’ you said, ‘And we’re all just trying to reverse engineer the source code.’ With pizzas in our bellies and beer in our bloodstreams, we were on our way up Dolores Park to catch a view of the San Francisco skyline. I inhaled and took it all in — the undulation of my chest, the leaves shaking in the wind, the afterglow of headlights rising from passing cars. There’s an aching beauty to the way it all comes together. Through generations, our species has used e...

‘The world is a generative artwork,’ you said, ‘And we’re all just trying to reverse engineer the source code.’ With pizzas in our bellies and beer in our bloodstreams, we were on our way up Dolores Park to catch a view of the San Francisco skyline. I inhaled and took it all in — the undulation of my chest, the leaves shaking in the wind, the afterglow of headlights rising from passing cars. There’s an aching beauty to the way it all comes together. Through generations, our species has used e...