Comments on: local and remote: a recursive feedback loop http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/04/18/local-and-remote-a-recursive-feedback-loop/ a feed-reading of The Capilano Review Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:25:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: michael boyce http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/04/18/local-and-remote-a-recursive-feedback-loop/#comment-272 michael boyce Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:56:26 +0000 http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/04/18/local-and-remote-a-recursive-feedback-loop/#comment-272 Frank T Vertosik wrote a book entitled: The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing This is from the Library Journal review of it: "To be alive, one must think." A practicing neurosurgeon, Vertosick maintains that intelligence the ability to store experience and to use it to solve future problems is an emergent property of groups. Thus, bacteria, the immune system, and enzymes can be as smart as the human brain. All of these entities operate within networks that communicate and adapt to change in true Darwinian fashion. He further believes that this network paradigm of problem-solving originated at the cellular level. I read this book, and reading the above text made me think of it. Because it puts an interesting spin on what you might call the phenomenology of networks, and because it of it's idea that life is intelligence, which is it self and emergent property of groups (or networks) Frank T Vertosik wrote a book entitled: The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing
This is from the Library Journal review of it:
“To be alive, one must think.” A practicing neurosurgeon, Vertosick maintains that intelligence the ability to store experience and to use it to solve future problems is an emergent property of groups. Thus, bacteria, the immune system, and enzymes can be as smart as the human brain. All of these entities operate within networks that communicate and adapt to change in true Darwinian fashion. He further believes that this network paradigm of problem-solving originated at the cellular level.

I read this book, and reading the above text made me think of it. Because it puts an interesting spin on what you might call the phenomenology of networks, and because it of it’s idea that life is intelligence, which is it self and emergent property of groups (or networks)

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