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It's been bowing my bookshelf for a while. It's an excellent introduction to chaos, complexity and emergence using the single example of cellular automata as simulated in Wolfram's program Mathematica. It lacks historical perspective and fails to cite how the ideas have impacted other areas of science, so it fails to show how pervasive and fundemental its concepts are. It is, nevertheless, a fascinating step by step journey into how simple systems can behave in ways that their rules cannot predict. By limiting the discussion so severely, there's a sense of completeness and inevitability that was responsible for a lot of the enthusiasm that the book engendered when first published. An elegant, worthwhile book that is deeply flawed as a work within the field. |
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