“Holland’s main project in Emergence is to define a class of models in which simple rules generate both perpetual novelty and persistent patterns, the latter of which will count as emergent phenomena. He calls these models constrained generating procedures (cpgs). Cpgs perform the same two seemingly…”— David Lane, insiteproject.org
“Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“A famous sonnet by William Wordsworth begins, 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; / And hermits are contented with their cells; / and students with their pensive citadels.' Wordsworth's point is that what nuns, hermits, and students do is facilitated rather than hindered by the confines o…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com