A student in Colorado, looking for some sort of synthesis--the big picture, encompassing all the strangeness in the universe--but willing to settle for the philosophic or poetic lens.
Tonight, Colorado Public Radio is hosting a program about emergence:
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That's our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very brains. Featured are: author Steven Johnson, mathematician Steve Strogatz and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch.
The program begins tonight at 9pm (MST) on KCFR. In case you aren't local, you can listen online through Colorado Public Radio's website. If you miss the program, live on the air, you can always listen here, via New York Public Radio.
I'll add my impressions of the program, tomorrow*. In the meantime, listen, enjoy, and feel free to share your own thoughts here.
Image (Synchronous Display of male fireflies in a "firefly tree" in Southeast Asia, Scientific American, May 1976) via New York Public Radio.
[Note* (11/15/2006) Ok, so, as usual, I'm running a little behind. I hope to have my response finished soon... "tomorrow" just wasn't very practical.]
Comments
But doesn't this carry the same inherent flaw as globalization...one site gets compromised and due to their interconnectivity they ALL get compromised...
Posted by: oto kiralama | July 6, 2011 9:46 AM