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An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.
Most game players, alas, live on something close to day-trader time, at least when they're in the middle of a game--thinking more about their next move than their next meal, and usually blissfully oblivious to the ten- or twenty-year trajectory of software development. No one wants to play with a toy that's going to be fun after a few decades of tinkering--the toys have to be engaging now, or kids will find other toys.
Johnson has a knack for explaining complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without stealing the scene. Though we're far from fully understanding how complex behavior manifests from simple units and rules, our awareness that such emergence is possible is guiding research across disciplines. Readers unfamiliar with the sciences of complexity will find Emergence an excellent starting point, while those who were chaotic before it was cool will appreciate its updates and wider scope. --Rob Lightner -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Johnson makes sense of the cutting-edge theory of emergence, exploring the ways intelligent systems are built from small, unintelligent elements without control from above. Johnson is a journalist for an online magazine; emergence is being touted as the coming paradigm for the Internet. Johnson discerns emergent qualities on the Internet by using analogies from the biological world, so it is with the world of slime molds and ant colonies that Johnson repairs to report on people who have teased out rules of emergence. Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells him about the iterative acts of ants that produce the meta-behavior of colonies in Arizona (a reprise for readers of her Ants at Work, 1999). Cities also exhibit emergence, with Johnson reminding us of what Engels wrote about Manchester and Jane Jacobs about New York in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). From these and other examples, such as the popular computer game SimCity, the Web site eBay, or a cyber-community called slashdot.com, Johnson generalizes five rules of "bottom-up" behavior in self-organizing systems. A lively snapshot of current trends. Gilbert Taylor
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Emergence was the best science book I found in 2001. It provides you with the best overview over self-organizing systems in different areas, from ants to cities, from software to the human brain.. And I found the book very easy to read and understand, though I learned a lot about very complex structures.
The book starts with the explanation of the specific behavior of ants and how this theoretical model of self-organizing systems was built. The very old and new components were feedback loops, with are necessary for self organized systems.
Then the author is looking for the same complex structures in other biological environments like body-cells and the human brain. But that was not enough. He also is looking in social environments like the guilt system in Europe or modern cities and their living structures. At the end the newest researches for software programming leads you to development in the Internet and the working with computers. It is very astonishing to see, were the future may go.
Beside the actual facts, the book also explains the development in those scientific areas over the last decades and shows us the ways the scientists were gone.
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This is an excellent overview of a fascinating field and some of it's potential applications. As far as the genre of "Popular Science" goes, "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" is an excellent starting place to spur one onto more detailed works. It is a work of "Popular Science" so if you are a scientist working in this field you may find other works of greater interst. For the layman this is an easy and fascinating read.
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'Emergence' is certainly a good primer to the topic, written in a quite accessible style. Unfortunately, Steven Johnson describes at length ant behavior and city development (among many other processes), but he generally fails to give necessary insight into possible underlying mechanisms.
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