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I cannot recall the last time I enjoyed a book of any kind this much.There is a stark difference between the way a book like this was written in 1990 and the way such books are written just 25 years later. The author, then, had two assumptions: His reader did not know very much, and his reader was very intelligent. M. Mitchell Waldrop, subsequently, explains with brevity and sophistication every idea.Todays equivalent, a catastrophe like The Upright Thinkers, assumes the opposite: Todays reader knows everything, because of Google, and todays reader is a moron with a chipmunks attention span. Therefore, stay in the first-person and make it glib!Anyway, here are some examples from the wonderful Complexity:Its essentially meaningless to talk about a complex adaptive system being in equilibrium: the system can never get there. It is always unfolding, always in transition. In fact, if the system ever does reach equilibrium, it isnt just stable. Its dead. And by the same token, theres no point in imagining that the agents in the system can ever optimize their fitness, or their utility, or whatever. The space of possibilities is too vast; they have no practical way of finding the optimum. The most they can do is change and improve themselves relative to what the other agents are doing. In short, complex adaptive systems are characterized by perpetual novelty. (p. 147)andHolland, however, saw such top-down conflict resolution as precisely the wrong way to go. Is the world such a simple and predictable place that you always know the best rule in advance? Hardly. And if the system has been told what to do in advance, then its a fraud to call the thing artificial intelligence: the intelligence isnt in the program but in the programmer. No, Holland wanted control to be learned. He wanted to see it emerging from the bottom up, just as it did from the neural substrate of the brain. (p. 185)andIts a lot like the difference between solids, where the atoms are locked into place, and fluids, where the atoms tumble over one another at random. But right in between the two extremes, he says, at a kind of abstract phase transition called the edge of chaos, you also find complexity: a class of behaviors in which the components of the system never quite lock into place, yet never quite dissolve into turbulence, either. These are the systems that are both stable enough to store information, and yet evanescent enough to transmit it. These are the systems that can be organized to perform complex computations, to react to the world, to be spontaneous, adaptive, and alive. (p. 293)This book is an intellectual experience that delights.
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