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2018 : WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION? [1]

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W. Daniel Hillis [5]
Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied Invention.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone
The Last Question

 

What is the principle that causes complex adaptive systems (life, organisms, minds, societies) to spontaneously emerge from the interaction of simpler elements (chemicals, cells, neurons, individual humans)?

 

   

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