Emergence looks pretty promising, despite the hokey comparison image of a cross-section of the brain and a 17th century map of Hamburg. In the first two pages Evelyn Fox Keller is introduced. I met Ms. Keller briefly at Williams 20 years ago, where she was presenting on new work in biology that was pushing the boundaries of the concept of natural selection, saying that some species seemed to evolve without natural selection. I’ve probably way over-simplified this, but that’s what I remember.

Then it mentions that she was inspired in 1968 by Turing’s 1952 paper on morphogenesis, and in particular his work on Fibonacci series numbers as expressed in natural growth patterns in daisies. So I guess I have to go back and finish Hodges biography.

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