Provocative and engaging,Emergenceputs you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.
STEVEN JOHNSON THE MYTH OF THE ANT QUEEN SOFTWARE
How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?In the coming years, the power of self-organization - coupled with the connective technology of the Internet - will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOKAVOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENTTOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARANESQUIREMAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition ofBeing DigitalandThe Tipping Point,Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart"(The Village Voice),takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.The woman was able to have multiple characteristics in which many of them contradict each other. For this reason, this supports Gladwell in saying that a person's characteristics depend on circumstance and context. Mischel argues that she can be all the characteristics at the same time and that it depends on who she is with, when, how, and so one which characteristic of hers comes out (160). Therefore, the reducing valve in our minds makes us choose between the two different types of characteristics of the woman and makes excuses for why the other characteristics surface sometimes. The reducing valve "creates and maintains the perception of continuity even in the face of perpetual observed changes in actual behavior (159)." Mischel gives the example of a woman who is independent and hostile but can also be dependent and feminine. He states that people have a reducing valve in their minds. He used Phycologist Walter Mischel's theory of the reducing valve to support him. She was managing an experiment …show more content… He described how one's character changes depending on the context of the situation one is in. Steven Johnson began his essay on the experiment that was conducted by Deborah Gordon. These two essays have two significantly different topics, but when joined together, they make one conclusion: character and identity can be described as self-organizing systems. Whereas Steven Johnson wrote the essay "The Myth of the Ant Queen" which argues that big systems can self-organize itself and not need a leader. Malcolm Gladwell wrote an essay called "The Power of Context" that argues that character is based on circumstance and context. Character and identity are usually thought of as unified and all-encompassing, however, Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Johnson try to express character and identity as something different.
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