The world is an enormous injustice.
The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.
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.
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.
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.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral
I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.