Self-Organization

Introduction Humans are rather funny things, we often tend to imagine that we are so ‘special’, so divorced by our supposed ‘intelligence’ from the influences of the ‘natural world’ and so unique in our ‘abstracting’ abilities. We have this persistent delusion, evident since ancient Greek times, that we are ‘rational’, that we can behave as ‘disinterested observers’ of our world, which manifests in AI thought today in a belief that, in a like...