>True, there are intelligent agents, but they are part of the system itself.
>There is no intelligent input from outside the system, as would be needed
>to make the analogy with PC.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that we cannot establish that there is
(or is not) any intelligent input from outside the system?
>Also, the intelligent agents are not generally
>interested in the global dynamics of the system but rather localized effects
>(e.g. personal profit).
>
which, as some folks at the Santa Fe Institute have pointed out (was it
Chris Langton who did the bird flocking simulation?) can lead to behavior
that seems amazingly coordinated.
Bill Hamilton
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