Alan's review
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
Alan's review
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
Alan's review
rating:
bookshelves:
science-as-metaphor,
social-physics
Key point: Ants do not exhibit any intelligence on their own. They take their cues as a group and only as a group can they make ingenious mounds of architecture. Science and western thought tend to atomize big problems into little components. Johnson suggests that this habit has prevented us form understanding complex structures like consciousness.
