Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
Generating Wholes
thinking about big things that are made of small things — not small things that became big things
It quickly became evident that we were all talking about the same thing—emergence: the idea that new structural properties and patterns can appear spontaneously in complex adaptive systems that are not present in its individual parts.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.