# Emergence - Book on a Page ![rw-book-cover](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4GTh0A6fp7U/maxresdefault.jpg) URL:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTh0A6fp7U&ab_channel=Zsolt%27sVisualPersonalKnowledgeManagement Author:: Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management ## Highlights > that whenever I see intelligentCollective Behaviorit implies to me some kind ofcentralized authority figureand as it turns out this is not the casein many of the situations that we facein our lifethis includes our thinking and our brainit includes the way cities areself-organized and it also includesonline communities and social networks ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78y9kqzmt3wrh017da55js)) > system itself a very high number ofencounters also ensures that the systemdoes not get stuck in a state of localOptimumfourth agents must be able to identifypatterns in the signs they receive fromtheir peers and the environment forexample in case of an ant colonysmelling the pheromones of 50 foragersin a space of an hour imparts ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78yg6b247vcbyapget0p52)) > this part of the interview did not getinto the mainstream media however thenext evening because local news agencieshad access to all the recordings of CNNthrough a con track signed back in the1980s local news agencies have decidedthat this is universally and they camepublic with the news and as aconsequence once the news was aired the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z5nzegb6cz34w9tbng3a)) > loop and how the absolute refractoryperiod of neurons the fatigue of neuronsacts as a negative feedback loop and howall of this important to keep thehomostasis of the brain however thepoint I want to highlight here so thisis not covered on the book on a page thepoint I want to cover here is a veryinteresting experiment that is discussedin the book and that is about us being ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z72z80n795p1s8mfd0s7)) > based on the result of that simulationthere's an interesting experiment thatwas done with small children in theexperiment the children see as theresearchers take a box of Smarties theyremove the candy from the box and theyput pencils in the box and then closethe box and put it on the table and thenan unknowing adult comes to the room andthe children are asked what the adult ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z8t54tdv011zmcbgg5a7)) --- Title: Emergence - Book on a Page Author: Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management Tags: readwise, articles date: 2024-01-30 --- # Emergence - Book on a Page ![rw-book-cover](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4GTh0A6fp7U/maxresdefault.jpg) URL:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTh0A6fp7U&ab_channel=Zsolt%27sVisualPersonalKnowledgeManagement Author:: Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management ## AI-Generated Summary #sketchnote #BookOnAPage #excalidraw #obsidianmd #pkm https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/ In this video, I provide a summary of Steven Johnson's book, Emergence that I created as part of Cohort 1 of the Visual Thinking workshop. If you are interested to see how this same book on a page presentation would look like using the Obsidian Canvas, check out my other video here: https://youtu.be/2ynZxmqBfqI A high-resolution PNG version, plus the standalone excalidraw file, and the Obsidian-Excalidraw .md version of this BoaP are available here: https://ko-fi.com/s/21beaf4b73 The BoaP features two sketches generated using GPT3's DALL-E. If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt The book on a page was created with the Obsidian-Excalidraw plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin The presentation was done using the Excalidraw Slideshow script: https://youtu.be/HhRHFhWkmCk Timestamps -------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:11 About t... ## Highlights > that whenever I see intelligentCollective Behaviorit implies to me some kind ofcentralized authority figureand as it turns out this is not the casein many of the situations that we facein our lifethis includes our thinking and our brainit includes the way cities areself-organized and it also includesonline communities and social networks ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78y9kqzmt3wrh017da55js)) > system itself a very high number ofencounters also ensures that the systemdoes not get stuck in a state of localOptimumfourth agents must be able to identifypatterns in the signs they receive fromtheir peers and the environment forexample in case of an ant colonysmelling the pheromones of 50 foragersin a space of an hour imparts ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78yg6b247vcbyapget0p52)) > this part of the interview did not getinto the mainstream media however thenext evening because local news agencieshad access to all the recordings of CNNthrough a con track signed back in the1980s local news agencies have decidedthat this is universally and they camepublic with the news and as aconsequence once the news was aired the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z5nzegb6cz34w9tbng3a)) > loop and how the absolute refractoryperiod of neurons the fatigue of neuronsacts as a negative feedback loop and howall of this important to keep thehomostasis of the brain however thepoint I want to highlight here so thisis not covered on the book on a page thepoint I want to cover here is a veryinteresting experiment that is discussedin the book and that is about us being ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z72z80n795p1s8mfd0s7)) > based on the result of that simulationthere's an interesting experiment thatwas done with small children in theexperiment the children see as theresearchers take a box of Smarties theyremove the candy from the box and theyput pencils in the box and then closethe box and put it on the table and thenan unknowing adult comes to the room andthe children are asked what the adult ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gn78z8t54tdv011zmcbgg5a7))