An edition of Emergence (2001)

Emergence

The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

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An edition of Emergence (2001)

Emergence

The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

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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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Scribner
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English
Pages
288

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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
August 28, 2001, Scribner
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First Sentence

"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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Paperback
Number of pages
288
Dimensions
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Weight
8 ounces

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OL7722820M
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emergence00stev
ISBN 10
0684868768
ISBN 13
9780684868769
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664
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2296

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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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