Out of Control

"Out of Control" Table Of Contents:

• 1- 1 The Made and the Born 6
• 2- Neo-biological civilization 6
• 3- The triumph of the bio-logic 7
• 4- Learning to surrender our creations 8
• 5- 2 Hive Mind 9
• 6- Bees do it: distributed governance 9
• 7- The collective intelligence of a mob 1 1
• 8- Asymmetrical invisible hands 1 3
• 9- Decentralized remembering as an act of perception 1 5
• 10- More is more than more, it’s different 20
• 11- Advantages and disadvantages of swarms 21
• 12- The network is the icon of the 21st century 25
• 13- 3 Machines with an AttaTTitude 28
• 14- Entertaining machines with bodies 28
• 15- Fast, cheap and out of control 37
• 16- Getting smart from dumb things 41
• 17- The virtues of nested hierarchies 44
• 18- Using the real world to communicate 46
• 19- No intelligence without bodies 48
• 20- Mind/body black patch psychosis 49
• 21- 4 Assembl ing Compl exity 55
• 22- Biology: the future of machines 55
• 23- Restoring a prairie with fire and oozy seeds 58
• 24- Random paths to a stable ecosystem 60
• 25- How to do everything at once 62
• 26- The Humpty Dumpty challenge 65
• 27- 5 Coevolution 67
• 28- What color is a chameleon on a mirror? 67
• 29- The unreasonable point of life 70
• 30- Poised in the persistent state of almost falling 73
• 31- Rocks are slow life 75
• 32- Cooperation without friendship or foresight 78
• 33- 6 The Natural Flux 83
• 34- Equilibrium is death 83
• 35- What came first, stability or diversity? 86
• 36- Ecosystems: between a superorganism and an identity workshop 89
• 37- The origins of variation 90
• 38- Life immortal, ineradicable 92
• 39- Negentropy 95
• 40- The fourth discontinuity: the circle of becoming 97
• 41- 7 Em ergence of Control 99
• 42- In ancient Greece the first artificial self 99
• 43- Maturing of mechanical selfhood 1 02
• 44- The toilet: archetype of tautology 1 04
• 45- Self-causing agencies 1 08
• 46- 8 Closed Systems 11 2
• 47- Bottled life, sealed with clasp 11 2
• 48- Mail-order Gaia 11 5
• 49- Man breathes into algae, algae breathes into man 11 8
• 50- The very big ecotechnic terrarium 1 20
• 51- A an experiment in sustained chaos 23
• 52- A another synthetic ecosystem, like California 30
• 53- 9 Pop Goes the Biosphere 1 33
• 54- Co-pilots of the 100 million dollar glass ark 1 33
• 55- Migrating to urban weed 1 36
• 56- The deployment of intentional seasons 1 38
• 57- A cyclotron for the life sciences 43
• 58- The ultimate technology 1 45
• 59- 1
• 60- 0 Industrual Ec ology 1 47
• 61- Pervasive round-the-clock plug in 1 47
• 62- I invisible intelligence 49
• 63- Bad-dog rooms vs. nice-dog rooms 1 51
• 64- Programming a commonwealth 1 54
• 65- Closed-loop manufacturing 1 55
• 66- Technologies of adaptation 1 58
• 67- 11 Network Ec onomics 1 61
• 68- H having your everything amputated 61
• 69- I instead of crunching, connecting 62
• 70- Factories of information 1 65
• 71- Y your job: managing error 69
• 72- Connecting everything to everything 1 73
• 73- 1
• 74- 2 E-Money 1 76
• 75- Crypto-anarchy: encryption always wins 1 76
• 76- The fax effect and the law of increasing returns 1 82
• 77- S superdistribution 84
• 78- Anything holding an electric charge w ill hold a fiscal charge 189
• 79- Peer-to-peer finance with nanobucks 195
• 80- Fear of underwire economies 1 96
• 81- 1
• 82- 3 God Games 1 98
• 83- E electronic godhood 98
• 84- Theories with an interface 1 99
• 85- A god descends into his polygonal creationTo 203
• 86- The transmission of simulacra 208
• 87- Memorex warfare 209
• 88- S seamless distributed armies 213
• 89- A a 10,000 piece hyperreality 215
• 90- The consensual ascii superorganism 216
• 91- Letting go to win 219
• 92- 1
• 93- 4 In the Library of Form 221
• 94- A an outing to the universal library 221
• 95- The space of all possible pictures 225
• 96- Travels in biomorph land 228
• 97- H harnessing the mutator 231
• 98- S sex in the library 233
• 99- Breeding art masterpieces in three easy steps 236
• 100- Tunnelling through randomness 239
• 101- 1
• 102- 5 Artificial Evolution 241
• 103- Tom Ray’s electric-powered evolution machine 241
• 104- W what you can’t engineer, evolution can 245
• 105- Mindless acts performed in parallel 247
• 106- Computational arms race 251
• 107- Taming wild evolution 253
• 108- S stupid scientists evolving smart molecules 254
• 109- D death is the best teacher 258
• 110- The algorithmic genius of ants 261
• 111- The end of engineering’s hegemony 264
• 112- 1
• 113- 6 The Future of Control 267
• 114- Cartoon physics in toy worlds 267
• 115- Birthing a synthespian 269
• 116- R robots without hard bodies 272
• 117- The agents of ethnological architecture 275
• 118- I imposing destiny upon free will 276
• 119- Mickey Mouse rebooted after clobbering Donald 278
• 120- S searching for co-control 281
• 121- 1
• 122- 7 An Op en Universe 283
• 123- To enlarge the space of being 283
• 124- Primitives of visual possibilities 284
• 125- H how to program happy accidents 285
• 126- A all survive by hacking the rules 288
• 127- The handy-dandy tool of evolution 290
• 128- H hang-gliding into the game of life 292
• 129- Life verbs 294
• 130- H homesteading hyperlife territory 296
• 131- 1
• 132- 8 The St ruct ure of Organized Change 300
• 133- The revolution of daily evolution 300
• 134- Bypassing the central dogma 302
• 135- The difference, if any, between learning and evololution 304
• 136- The evolution of evolution 307
• 137- The explanation of everything 309
• 138- 1
• 139- 9 Postdarwinism 310
• 140- The incompleteness of Darwinian theory 310
• 141- Natural selection is not enough 312
• 142- Intersecting lines on the tree of life 314
• 143- The premise of non-random mutations 315
• 144- Even monsters follow rules 318
• 145- When the abstract is embodied 320
• 146- The essential clustering of life 321
• 147- DNA can’t code for everything 322
• 148- An uncertain density of biological search space 324
• 149- Mathematics of natural selection 325
• 150- 20 ����������������������� TheBuTTerFLysLeePs32The Butt erfl y Sl eeps 328
• 151- Order for free 328
• 152- Net math: A counter-intuitive style of math 329
• 153- Lap games, jets, and auto-catalytic sets 331
• 154- A question worth asking 333
• 155- Self-tuning vivisystems 337
• 156- 21 Rising Flow 340
• 157- A 4 billion year ponzi scheme 340
• 158- What evolution wants 343
• 159- Seven trends of hyper-evolution 346
• 160- Coyote trickster self-evolver 350
• 161- 22 Predict ion machinery 352
• 162- Brains that catch baseballs 352
• 163- The flip side of chaos 355
• 164- Positive myopia 357
• 165- Making a fortune from the pockets of predictability 358
• 166- Varieties of prediction 366
• 167- Change in the service of non-change 369
• 168- Telling the future is what the systems are for 370
• 169- The many problems with global models 370
• 170- We are all steering 375
• 171- 23 Wholes, Holes, and Sp aces 377
• 172- What ever happened to cybernetics? 377
• 173- The holes in the web of scientific knowledge 380
• 174- To be astonished by the trivial 382
• 175- Hypertext: the end of authority 385
• 176- A new thinking space 389
• 177- 24 The Nine Laws of God 392
• 178- How to make something from nothing 392
• 179- A
• 180- nnotated Bibl iography 398

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