On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Nick Arnett wrote:
> I'm talking about the Santa Fe Institution people and those doing
> related work. Kauffman, Waldrop, Holland, Arthur, Lewin, etc. I've
> read probably 20 such books, none in the last few years, so I may be
> somewhat behind. I did most of an undergraduate degree in biology until
> I switched into writing and rhetoric. I got interested in genetics when
> I was a kid; as a college freshman in 1975, one of my first programs on
> a PDP-8 modeled Mendelian inheritance.
Just to give you an idea as to where my mind was, when I read "Waldrop" I
immediately thought Howard, not M. Mitchell. :P
(We owned a copy of _Complexity_, I read it, it got lost sometime around
1998 or so, and we may replace it, because we liked it. I own a copy of
_Howard Who?_ that I've seen a lot more recently, and I'm at the same
conventions as Howard on a regular basis. Don't think I've ever shared
space with M. Mitchell.)
Julia
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