Neurotransmitters
Hi Sam,
A lot of your presentation deals with evolution and something called metasystem transitions. It is part of the academic field of evolutionary cybernetics.
-ben
Posted by Ben Houston atHi Sam,
This blog entry title really got my attention. While many lessons can be learned about programming models by analogy to biological systems (where evolutionary forces produced solutions after almost infinite rounds of trial and error), I’m sorry to say that I don’t see how loose references to cellular organization has anything to do with the title Neurotransmitters (other than a cartoon of a neuron) or how Neurotransmitters might elucidate improved web programming practices based on the content of the slides.
Would you please elaborate more about this? I’d definitely like to hear more.
Thank you.
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Steven,
While Sam’s presentation is riddled with all sorts of metaphors, operating at different biological and chemical levels, his general references to cellular organization are most relevant for understanding distributed web architecture. Looking closely at forms of biological organization can help give us a sense that an “application” is no longer seen as a self-enclosed singular program, but a “cell” in a larger network of cells, where new “organs” or emergent behavior can arise from coordinated feedback and communication between the cells. This also means that it is not just the cells that are important, but also the receptors (binding sites) that accept messages to the cell, and thus the format of the messages themselves becomes extremely significant. Does this remind you of anything that has been happening with languages and markup formats recently?
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