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: Systems use positive and negative feedback to adapt to their environments and maintain stability. The Five Principles of Emergent Systems
: Ant colonies function as a collective "superorganism" even though the queen has no managerial authority; she is simply a reproductive unit. Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains...
Johnson identifies five rules for building a system that learns from the ground up: : Systems use positive and negative feedback to
: Decentralized systems rely on arbitrary interactions to "sample" and alter their overall state. Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains...
: Consciousness emerges from the collective firing of billions of "dumb" neurons.
: The ability to detect recurring signals allows meta-information to circulate through the system.