We make ourselves up as we go.
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
A brain can improve till it fits its environment.
What does it mean, being a woman?
if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. '
Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.