: Systems use positive and negative feedback to adapt to their environments and maintain stability. The Five Principles of Emergent Systems
: High-level patterns arise from simple, decentralized interactions rather than top-down commands. Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains...
: Complex behavior is best achieved through many simple components rather than a few complicated ones. : Systems use positive and negative feedback to
: The ability to detect recurring signals allows meta-information to circulate through the system. Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains...
Johnson identifies five rules for building a system that learns from the ground up: