分形的网络

从Smart Mob上看到这篇介绍,有新意的,是Steven Strogatz谨慎的评论: “They’ve found something new here, but we don’t know yet whether it is a Rosetta stone that […]

“生机论“的复活

对于电脑来说,不管电脑是用什么材料造的,其计算行为的实质,不是“结构”的硬件,而是“组织”(也就是一种抽象控制结构)的软件。 那么生物体的“生命力”,也似乎应当是存在于分子的“组织”之中,而不是在分子本身。

The Long Tail

Mary shared an old article on Wired (by Chris Anderson) last year. You enjoyed reading it.

The locus of truth on the Web?

From Berkman Center news: “Wikipedia.org — the grassroots encyclopedia — has frozen edits to the page about George W. Bush […]

Fundamental Questions

What is the nature of life? What distinguishes living systems from those that appear equally complex but we do not […]

Whale culture and CAS perspective

This is from Mayer-Kress’s work in 2000. “Culture can be viewed as one manifestation of an emergent, self-organized structure of […]