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Title: The best popular work on how complexity arises
Review: The biggest complaint about so-called compositional theories of behavior, mental processes or other complex systems is that they don't actually provide a concise explanation of how you'e actually supposed to build complex behavior from simple agents.What Waldrop has done is to build a simple model for experimenting with just that- how to build complex behavior from simple agents, and this book is a description of the experiments he's done with that system, as well as his experiences with it."Complexity..." is exceptionally well written, and surprisingly entertaining for a book that is essentially a description of a computer program. I suspect it will become one of the classic texts of the dynamics and evolution of complex systems.
