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[theweaselking]

Magnus is wise.

Each individual cell is not intelligent. It just does the usual cell stuff with no clue as to its purpose in life. This even holds true for brain cells.

Thinking even one simple thought is like packing a building site with thousands of blind idiots, so many that they must pile atop each other. Then you hand them bricks, lots and lots of bricks. The blind morons wake up to an excited flurry of activity when given bricks. They pass them on to another blind moron who then passes it on, and so forth. When all the bricks are dropped at last, you have a cathedral. And this, my friends, is emergent behavior.

It also neatly explains the quality of much of human thought as you will meet it in everyday life...

Word.

Comments

Weak.

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but all you have to do is say that every cathedral has an architect, and suddenly it looks an awful lot like an intelligent-design argument.

Verdict: Watery.

Re: Weak.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Except, and here is a very important part: it is NOT AN ARGUMENT.

So judging it weak is really weird.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

I am fascinated by the study of emergent behavior.

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

It's always amusing to hear people's discussions on emergent behavior. It's especially interesting when you run into those rare few who move beyond understanding the underlying principal and get to the point where they actually Understand.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but I think that might be something in the family of a compliment.

So ... thanks.