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Another evolving system example?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 1:54pm.

Review in yesterday's NYTimes of The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves by W. Brian Arthur. 

"Technologies evolve, Dr. Arthur writes, based on the chaotic and constant recombining of already existing technologies. In this view all technological breakthroughs emerge as novel combinations of existing technological components, which have themselves come into existence through the same process. And, he argues, both technological and scientific progress are driven by humans looking for a means to an end they have already defined."

Sounds a lot like a hybrid system:  emergence interacting with intentionality. 

 

 

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