It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.
If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray. "
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.