Symmetry in Chaos

Symmetry in Chaos
paulbourke.net

Books by same: https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/golubitsky.4/mgbooks.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Golubitsky

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? Ian Stewart + Martin Golubitsky

is a good read, Ian Stewart is well known to UK recreational math fans and frequently hosts STEM material on th BBC.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1651085

    This sequel to the bestselling *Does God Play Dice?* will open your eyes to the broken symmetries that lie all around you, from the shapes of clouds to the drops of dew on a spider's web, from centipedes to corn circles. It will take you to the farthest reaches of the universe and bring you face-to-face with some of the deepest questions of modern physics.

Seriously though. We talk about AI, but In My Opinion, the most powerful and interesting game changer is "Complex Adaptive Systems". I call them gestalts - the sum is greater than the parts because of how the parts interact to produce behaviors. Gestalts are all around us and we seem bizarrely unaware of them. Do you have some money? That means you are participating in a complex adaptive system or gestalt. Got cells? Perhaps you are a gestalt? Are you self aware? Does that mean you are a self aware gestalt, participating in other gestalts. Etc.

The difficult question is whether you (yes you personally) can build a gestalt. Can you take some pieces - entities - give them a set of rules and get them to do some accomplish a purpose. That is the problem Wolfram was asking

The RIP router is a defunct example that has all the pieces. Entities + Ability to interact + rules => function.

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