TopDown vs BottomUp
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(New page: Kevin Kelly has written an interesting post about the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control. He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up contributions and top-down con...) |
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| - | Kevin Kelly has written an interesting post about | + | Kevin Kelly has written an interesting |
| + | [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/02/the_bottom_is_n.php post] about | ||
the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control. | the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control. | ||
He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up | He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up | ||
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what you need to engineer self-organizing systems. | what you need to engineer self-organizing systems. | ||
| - | The engineering of self-organizing systems is a | + | The [[ESOS|engineering of self-organizing systems]] is a |
contradiction in itself: how can you organize something | contradiction in itself: how can you organize something | ||
which organizes itself? If we want to build a | which organizes itself? If we want to build a | ||
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how can we ensure the function ? Agents do by defintion | how can we ensure the function ? Agents do by defintion | ||
what they want. How can you construct a self-organizing | what they want. How can you construct a self-organizing | ||
| - | system? | + | system? How can we [[Engineering_Emergence|engineer emergence]]? |
The answer is: in a balanced, iterative process which | The answer is: in a balanced, iterative process which | ||
