Twelve kinds of taste
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Self-organizing systems, Systems engineering, Swarm intelligence, New York Times reviewed
"Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model, rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner; emergence begins at the ground level.
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Warm, cool, spare and plot-driven.
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Michiko Kakutani reviews book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson; photo (M)
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On Open Library, 9 have read it and 14 want to.
“It's early fall in Palo Alto, and Deborah Gordon and I are sitting in her office in Stanford's Gilbert Biological Sciences building, where she spends three-quarters of the year studying behavioral ecology.”
