Out Of Control: The Rise Of Neo-biological CivilizationThis is a book about how our manufactured world has become so complex that the only way to create yet more complex things is by using the principles of biology. This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network-based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. And more: restoration biology, encryption, a-life, and the lessons of hypertext. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you. -- Product Description. |
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... random ecosystems have absolutely no problem in stabilizing . Their most common feature is that they always come to ... random ecologies bear some resemblance to Stuart Kauffman's models of random genetic networks ; see chapter 20 ...
... random ecosystems have absolutely no problem in stabilizing . Their most common feature is that they always come to ... random ecologies bear some resemblance to Stuart Kauffman's models of random genetic networks ; see chapter 20 ...
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... random variation . Random variation within chromosomes produces a random variation in the developmental growth of the organism , which every now and then bestows increased fitness on the whole organism . Fitness is generated randomly ...
... random variation . Random variation within chromosomes produces a random variation in the developmental growth of the organism , which every now and then bestows increased fitness on the whole organism . Fitness is generated randomly ...
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... random mutation - at least not always ; it has some measure of order . This is an old idea . As early as 1926 , theorist Jan Christaan Smuts gave this genetic semi - order a name : internal selection . A plausible scenario for internal ...
... random mutation - at least not always ; it has some measure of order . This is an old idea . As early as 1926 , theorist Jan Christaan Smuts gave this genetic semi - order a name : internal selection . A plausible scenario for internal ...
Contents
THE MADE AND THE BORN | 1 |
HIVE MIND | 5 |
MACHINES WITH AN ATTITUDE | 29 |
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