Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
Brooks [...] defined an artificial being as a creation that can do useful work while surviving for weeks or months without human assistance in a real environment. (P.77) Robert Axelrod mused on the consequences of understanding coevolution and then added, " I hope my work on the evolution of cooperation helps the world avoid conflict . If you read the citation which the National Academy of Science gave me." (P.125) I truly was a self because of what it displaced. A constant autoregulated flow of water translated into a constant autoregulated clock and relieved a king of the need for servants to tend the water clock's water vessels. In this way, "auto-self" shouldered out the human self. From the very first instance, automation replaced human work . (P.152) All of Gaudi's work squirms with the flow of life. Ventilator chimneys sprouting on the roofs of his Barcelona apartments resemble a collection of mounted life forms from an alien planet. Window eaves an
