![]() ![]() In Steven Johnson’s “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he also discusses the implicit coordination within societal hierarchies and the organized complexities associated with them. In Franklin Foer’s “Mark Zuckerberg’s War on Free Will” certain patterns are discussed in which intelligence and creativity are outdated due to the emergence of computer algorithms which puts into question as to whether human creativity should be nurtured. With the accelerated growth of technology and algorithms, the demand for human creativity and intelligence has significantly declined. ![]() ” This can also tie back into the idea of human intellect, as well, as it can be brought into question as to whether or not intelligence is something that can be accurately measured at this point in time. ![]() This phenomenon can be tied to simple laziness, or to the fact that society has progressed to the point where we no longer need our own brains to solve a problem or create something “original. If something needs to be done efficiently, we turn to our computers, mobile devices, or tablets to do the hard work and thinking for us. Both of my classmates agree that my thesis needs t.Human creativity is something within society, worldwide that continues to be suppressed as time progresses.Siva Valdhyanathan and "Contamination Anxiety" : a. ![]() So here a computer self-organizes its connections to better carry out its function, similarly to how the ant colony self organizes to carry out its function: survive and reproduce. Primitive computers could learn and thereby see patterns if rules were set up and a program was run thousands of times. Fast-forwarding to the middle of the 20th century, the author discusses of self-organization also applies to the language of coding. This time a self-organization emerged from a lack of authority but people unknowingly created this pattern, rather than their genes telling them to as in the case of the ants. While industrializing "the city grew too fast for the authorities to keep up with it" (196) leading to a natural division between the working and the middle class in the city. This same "self-organization" is seen in her description of Manchester in the early 1800s. The colony function despite having a completely decentralized behavior, emerging "from the bottom up" (194), being derived from years and years of evolution. He uses it to describe the sophisticated seemingly state-planned layout of the ant colony, with designated a cemetery, garbage dump and even an emergency escape tunnel for the ant queen, all possible even though "the queen is not an actual authority figure" (194) and gives no orders to the worker ants. ![]()
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