A Networked World (Part 3)

guest post by David Spivak

From parts to wholes

Remember where we were. Ologs, linguistically-enhanced sketches, just werent doing justice to the idea that each step in a recipe is itself a recipe. But the idea seemed ripe for mathematical formulation.

Thus, I returned to a question Id wondered about in the very beginning: how is macro-understanding built from micro-understanding? How can multiple individual humans come together, like cells in a multicellular organism, to make a whole that is...