![]() Primitive computers could learn and thereby see patterns if rules were set up and a program was run thousands of times. Fast-forwarding to the middle of the 20th century, the author discusses of self-organization also applies to the language of coding. This time a self-organization emerged from a lack of authority but people unknowingly created this pattern, rather than their genes telling them to as in the case of the ants. While industrializing "the city grew too fast for the authorities to keep up with it" (196) leading to a natural division between the working and the middle class in the city. This same "self-organization" is seen in her description of Manchester in the early 1800s. The colony function despite having a completely decentralized behavior, emerging "from the bottom up" (194), being derived from years and years of evolution. ![]() He uses it to describe the sophisticated seemingly state-planned layout of the ant colony, with designated a cemetery, garbage dump and even an emergency escape tunnel for the ant queen, all possible even though "the queen is not an actual authority figure" (194) and gives no orders to the worker ants.
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