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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence The Connected Lives of Ants Brains Cities and Software
Author: Steven Johnson
This book is about the mystery of why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts.
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 engineer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684868752
ISBN-10: 068486875X
Publication Date: 8/28/2001
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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