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2009

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2008

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January 12

Emergence (steven johnson) p133-4

…all decentralized systems rely extensively on feedback, for both growth and self-regulation ...
Dec 30th
““the web may never become self-aware in any way that...”
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Dec 30th
““humans are far more skilled at recognising patterns...”
— Emergence (Steven Johnson)...
Dec 29th

Emergence (steven johnson) p123

A web2.0 bookmark system like delicious gets better the more it’s used. We each use it for...
Dec 29th

Emergence (steven johnson) p114-7

Is the web making us smarter? Just like clusters coalesce in the city sharing knowledge to better...
Dec 28th
“the specialisation of the city makes it smarter, more useful...”
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Dec 27th
“this knack for capturing information, and for bringing...”
— Emergence (Steven Johnson)...
Dec 27th

Emergence (steven johnson) p103-4

LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION “…learning is not always contingent on...
Dec 25th

Emergence (steven johnson) p97-99

VOLITION, free will, self consciousness is the defining characteristic between ants (colonies) and...
Dec 24th
““sidewalks (footpaths) work because they permit local...”
— Emergence (Steven Johnson)...
Dec 24th
““one group of cells may be the beginning of an...”
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Dec 23rd
““…while the overall colony evolves and adapts...”
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Dec 23rd

Emergence (steven johnson) p77-9

5 principles of self organising, emergence and adaptive from local knowledge (swarm logic) 1. MORE...
Dec 22nd
“local feedback may well prove to be the secret to the ant...”
— Emergence (steven johnson) p77
Dec 20th
““…ant information-processing relies on the...”
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Dec 20th
“take the relationship between foraging and colony size....”
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Dec 20th
““their knack for engineering and social coordination...”
— Emergence (Steven Johnson) p74
Dec 20th
“to watch darwinian evolution in action, all you need are...”
— Emergence (steven johnson) p60
Dec 20th

Emergence (steven johnson) p58

Living things are based on a safe fail premise called natural selection-self organisation in design....
Dec 20th