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The end of the chapter gets a bit hand wavy on power law distributions, but he does show some interesting simulations.

Wanted to get back to this book so I can finally finish it off...

In chapter 9 Kauffman applies his NK landscape model to explain the evolution seen in the Cambrian explosion and the re-population following the Permian extinction. He then follows it up with some interesting discussion which applies it to technological innovation, learning curves, and growth in areas of economics. (http://boffosocko.com/2017/02/11/on-p...)

Some really great combinatorics-based arguments through the past several chapters.

He's got some great logical theory, but often he's trying too hard to be inspirational and capture more pathos than he can chew off.

I'm coming around to portions of his thesis, but want to work through some of the math in more detail myself. Many of his statements in the last section have direct equivalents to notions I've held for quite a long while - the question is to find the equivalences between them.