“A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.”
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.