Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence? This video was made possible by a donation...
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An ant is pretty stupid.It doesn't have much of a brain, no will, no plan,and yet, many ants together are smart.An ant colony can construct complex structures.Some colonies keep farms of fungi, others take care of cattle. They can wage war or defend themselves.How is this possible?How can a bunch of stupid things do smart things together?This phenomenon is called emergence,and it's one of the most fascinating and mysterious features of our universe.In a nutshell, it describes small things forming bigger things that have different properties than the sum of their parts.Emergence is complexity arising from simplicity, and emergence is everywhere.[Intro]Water has vastly different properties to the molecules that make it up, like the concept of wetness.Take...
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An ant is pretty stupid.It doesn't have much of a brain, no will, no plan,and yet, many ants together are smart.An ant colony can construct complex structures.Some colonies keep farms of fungi, others take care of cattle. They can wage war or defend themselves.How is this possible?How can a bunch of stupid things do smart things together?This phenomenon is called emergence,and it's one of the most fascinating and mysterious features of our universe.In a nutshell, it describes small things forming bigger things that have different properties than the sum of their parts.Emergence is complexity arising from simplicity, and emergence is everywhere.[Intro]Water has vastly different properties to the molecules that make it up, like the concept of wetness.Take...
