In person, Bob Laughlin is a thoroughly engaging character with the twinkling eyes of a cheeky rogue and a razor-sharp mind. In this book he sets out to convince us that the age of reductionism is over, and that the age of emergence is upon us. He argues that complex organizational structures emerge from simple rules, that this leads to "stable inevitability in the way certain things are", as well as to "unpredictability, in the sense of small events causing great and qualitative changes in larger ones". Every reader will surely agree with this statement of the emergent credo.
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