On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:42 PM, Eric Hawthorne wrote:
I'm in the camp that thinks that emergent systems are real phenomena,
and
that eventually, objective criteria would be able to be established
that would
allow us to say definitively whether an emerged system existed in some
Tim May wrote:
OK, the example.
Go.
Black and white stones, with rules for moves that can be written on a
small index card. Similar to a cellular automaton, though not as
general.
And yet from simple rules on a simple grid, emergent properties:
* thickness (a measure of strength
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