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staycoolboy · 2020-05-30 · Original thread
Obligatory thesis that cracks this open:

"Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software"

An utterly phenomenal book:

https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Sof...

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