Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software / Steven Johnson.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Scribner, [2001]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2001وصف:288 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0684868768 (pbk)
- Q325 J65 2001
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | Q325 J65 2001 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000250901 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | Q325 J65 2001 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000250900 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
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. Author Steven Johnson takes readers on an eye-opening intellectual journey from the discovery of emergence to its applications. He introduces us to our everyday surroundings, offering surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. Drawing upon evolutionary theory, urban studies, neuroscience, and computer games, Emergence is a guidebook to one of the key components of twenty-first-century culture. Until recently, Johnson explains, the disparate philosophers of emergence have worked to interpret the world. But today they are starting to change it. This book is the riveting story of that change and what it means for the future.