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.
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Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson and Steven Johnson
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"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. Systems that at first glance seem vastly different - ant colonies, human brains, cities, immune systems - all turn out to follow the rules of emergence.
In each of these systems, agents residing on one scale start producing behavior that lies a scale above them: ants create colonies, urbanites create neighborhoods. In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson takes readers on an eye-opening intellectual journey from the discovery of emergence to its applications."--BOOK JACKET.
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
2012, Scribner
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
2002, Penguin Books Ltd
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
August 27, 2002, Scribner
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Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software
2001, Allen Lane
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
August 28, 2001, Scribner
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