The Algorithm - Iteration 4. Creation, Destruction & Maintenance. In all scales of reality and life we see a subtle network of interconnected entities and processes. These processes are executed, perfected and repeated over long periods of time. One process triggers, influences and catalyses many other ones, following simple rules, so that each of them again catalyses other ones, and so on in an intricate network. A set of processes that is self-sustaining by a closed loop of catalytic execution of its processes following simple rules is called an autocatalytic set. One can say there is a new entity emerging out of this complex interaction based on infinite repetitive perfection, an entity that satisfies properties and has qualities that its underlying constituents do not have individually. If we look at the origins of life, we can follow in some depth this self organisation from scale to scale, and we see how lower level networks of processes are executed in cycles over and over again, that self sustain themselves, and organising into a higher level of self sustaining structure on a next level of scale. But even if we move away from the bio-molecular levels, we see these networks of processes and patterns in the human mind as well, we are all subtle networks of driving forces, historical patterns, trigger mechanisms, that are manifesting themselves over and over again through the course of our lives. We tend to think ourselves as individuals, as some-one. But in fact we are power houses for a very intricate autocatalytic set of “personality” processes that are triggered and played back in different situations both internally and externally. If we look closely into these processes, the illusionary some-one, the individual is hardly found anywhere. But do not stop at the human level, if we move beyond to even higher scales, and look at emergent beings above humans, like corporations, cities, global events, thought patterns or theories or even more immaterial and subtle forces, we see the same autocatalytic sets of processes at play