Spontaneous Order

by Russ Roberts on November 7, 2006

in Complexity and Emergence

Go here. Beautiful. Very beautiful. More beauty here.

(HT: Bill Whittle via RealClearPolitics)

Comments

{ 2 comments }

spencer November 8, 2006 at 10:16 am

I do not understand.

Are you saying the flight patterns are
spontaneous?

faultolerant November 8, 2006 at 11:19 am

Russell:

The flight-plan perspectives are, indeed, quite beautiful. I'd argue, however, that they're far from spontaneous. As a matter of fact, the flight plan of a given jet (and all jets in aggregate) is one of the largest, most complex, of non-spontaneous events in our current worldsphere.

The LAST thing I'd ever want was an UNPLANNED, SPONTANEOUS group of 16,000 jets in the sky!

Great reference to the site, however. Thanks!

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