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By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Waldrop, Mitchell M. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.