Mitchell Waldrop; Complexity
Book	Page		Topic
Waldrop; Complexity	12		Santa Fe Institute,    founded in the mid-1980s.
Waldrop; Complexity	35		QWERTY keyboard,    engineer Christopher Scholes in 1873,    slow typists down,    jam the keys.		23
Waldrop; Complexity	82		The liquidity of water is an emergent property.    Nothing in the equations of atomic physics    even hints at such a property.		47
Waldrop; Complexity	82		Life is an emergent property,    the product of DNA molecules and protein molecules and myriad other kinds of molecules,    all obeying the laws of chemistry.		0
Waldrop; Complexity	82		The mind is an emergent property,    the product of billions of neurons obeying the biological laws of the living cell.		0
Waldrop; Complexity	100		The place was chaos. Arthur fell in love with it immediately. "I couldn't have designed a place that was better suited to my interests and temperament."		18
Waldrop; Complexity	101		Stuart Kauffman was an immensely creative man.    He emitted ideas nonstop. -    talking about his ideas out loud.		1
Waldrop; Complexity	102		Self-organization --    matter's incessant attempts    to organize itself into ever more complex structures,    even in the face of the incessant forces of dissolution of the second law of thermodynamics.		1
Waldrop; Complexity	118		Emergence -    incessant urge of complex systems    to organize themselves into patterns		16
Waldrop; Complexity	160		A cell assembly in the nervous system    can have as many as 10,000 neurons    distributed over a large part of the brain,    with as many as 10,000 synapses per neuron.		42
Waldrop; Complexity	164		Hebb's cell assemblies    were supposed to be the fundamental units of thought.		4
Waldrop; Complexity	167		All evolution can do is look for improvements,    not perfection.		3