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Stigmergic ant

Stigmergy a spontaneous, indirect coordination of actions, where the result of one action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action. This is actually what is happening. Natural order. All the time. It is the small things that matter. Many tiny, low level interactions bring about high level complexity and beauty. Ignore politicians, talk to the people around you. We are all ants.
Introducing chaos, Ziauddin Sardar PDF ebook
Conway's Game of Life when i first saw these computer animations i was shocked to see life-like movements coming out of such stupidly simple program.
Emergence - Wikipedia more order out of chaos.
ECCO
the tao of physics - Fritjof Capra also his book 'the web of life' is worth reading
Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia simple mathematical formular. Never-ending complex, beautiful and unpredictable patterns. Not designed but discovered.
Julia set wikipedia article
Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid book by Douglas Hofstadter. a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.
Turtles, termites and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds -Mitchel Resnick
time to do the 23 skidoo
find catalytic hypercycle picture