**Bead document** from Bead: Space Time As Emergent Computation · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/ea93f503-4369-4e72-8dce-8ef09b646a21/README.md) · discussion: Talk: Space Time As Emergent Computation
Home of the **Spacetime as Emergent Computation** program: the universe as an autocatalytic, decentralized computational graph; photons as emitter-absorber handshakes; matter as computational latency; spacetime and energy-momentum as emergent dual graphs over a pre-geometric potentia network. Seeded 2026-07-03 from a Stephen ↔ Gemini voice conversation. **Read order:** 1. [bead-bind-startup.md](bead-bind-startup.md): resume contract and interaction protocol (read this first if you are an agent picking the bead up) 2. [about.md](about.md): the canonical descriptive self 3. [2026-07-03/notes/00-orientation.md](2026-07-03/notes/00-orientation.md): the conceptual frame 4. The three vector notes in [2026-07-03/notes/](2026-07-03/notes/) 5. [2026-07-03/artifacts/gemini-share-DD6f2aQicQds.md](2026-07-03/artifacts/gemini-share-DD6f2aQicQds.md): the source conversation, ground truth