Every now and then something happens to a device that you have and it stops working like it originally did. There are two options: buy a new device, or adapt to the new functionality of your present device. Being a complex adaptive system with meager funds, I naturally choose to adapt. This means that, presently, [...]
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My Now Rinky-Dink Laptop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complex adaptive system, randomness, technology on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of Chaos: Order
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complex adaptive system, elohim, emergence, information, physics, randomness on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many creation myths contain an element that chaos reigned before order emerged. There’s the Enuma Elish, Genesis, and Ovid’s Metamorphosis. They all imply that there was some sort of chaos until a god (ruler) commands or acts to create order by establishing laws. In Genesis the words used are tohu (toe-who) and bohu (bough-who), [...]
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