George Siemens links to this site, a closer look at the concept of emergence. One of the best things about this item is that it links to a 1996 web page by Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman called Exploring Emergence. The idea of emergence is that organization appears out of the autonomous actions of smaller entities; this idea is nicely illustrated by 'The Game of Life', demonstrated on this page. The Crash Course, meanwhile, builds on this concept, identifying emergent phenomena on the web at large.
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