Michael Levin best posited for me the question of how animal cells can act cooperatively without a hierarchy. He has some biological experiments showing, for example, eye cells in a frog embryo will move to where the eye should go even if you pull it away. The question I don't think he could really answer was 'how do the cells know when to stop?'
Understanding non-hierarchical organization is key to understanding how society works, too. And to solve the various prisioner's delimmas at various scales in our self-organizing world.
It's also about understanding bare complexity and modeling it.
This is the first time I've seen the ability to model this stuff.
Michael Levin best posited for me the question of how animal cells can act cooperatively without a hierarchy. He has some biological experiments showing, for example, eye cells in a frog embryo will move to where the eye should go even if you pull it away. The question I don't think he could really answer was 'how do the cells know when to stop?'
Understanding non-hierarchical organization is key to understanding how society works, too. And to solve the various prisioner's delimmas at various scales in our self-organizing world.
It's also about understanding bare complexity and modeling it.
This is the first time I've seen the ability to model this stuff.
So many directions to go from here. Just wow.