Submitted by samkaplan on Thu, 01/25/2007 - 11:00pm.
I was initially most interested in Emergence because of its interdisciplinary potential. The idea that there are similarities between such diverse phenomena as traffic, blood flow, neurons, and life itself, is pretty incredible. It reminded me of "Gödel, Escher, Bach," a book which I tried to read but, although it fascinated me, couldn't finish. Now that I see it's on the list of books to review, maybe I'll give it another shot.
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I was initially most
I was initially most interested in Emergence because of its interdisciplinary potential. The idea that there are similarities between such diverse phenomena as traffic, blood flow, neurons, and life itself, is pretty incredible. It reminded me of "Gödel, Escher, Bach," a book which I tried to read but, although it fascinated me, couldn't finish. Now that I see it's on the list of books to review, maybe I'll give it another shot.