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Authors Publisher Scribner Pages 288 Genre Non-fiction OCLC 46858386 | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 2001 Originally published 2001 Page count 288 ISBN 9780684868752 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software is a book written by media theorist Steven Berlin Johnson, published in 2001. Early review drafts had the subtitle "What the New Science Can Teach Us About Our Minds, Our Communities, and Ourselves" instead of the "Connected life..."
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Emergence refers to the ability of low-level components of a system or community to self-organize into a higher-level system of sophistication and awareness. Johnson notes that this self reorganizing stems from the bottom up rather than directed by an external control factor. Johnson gives examples of feedback, self-organization and adaptive learning. He presents 5 fundamental principles to support his hypothesis:
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"The whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts."