Emergence

Stevenson Jean Prof. Neil Leach Fall 2016 Emergence Chapters summary Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson The word emergence is defined as a system that has many mechanism, but none of the mechanism is called to be the leader of that system. The system works as a whole; every constituent knows their role to fulfil their task without any interruptions. Within the system, all entities follow basic rules and behave to achieve their goal in the same direction. In the book, Steven Johnson describes the word emergence as an evolution that impacts our society every day. From way we behave, communicate, and resolve our daily problems, one factor can be similar comparing to the ant’s colony is by working…

In modern society, mankind is constantly changing and intelligence plays a crucial roles. It is the building blocks of becoming a successful and thriving civilization. With the powerful tool of emergent intelligence of a self-organizing system, a booming society emerges not with the help of one individual but, with the entire system working as a whole. As seen by in Steven Johnson and Cathy Davidson reading, “The Myth of the Ant Queens” and “Project Classroom Makeover respectively, shows that…

It is important to recognize that in Meleis’ theory, many of the details are addressed in the type of transition, the facilitators and inhibitors in the transition and the patterns of response. I do think that the complexity science concepts are crucial in maintaining and providing long term maintenance of chronic illness and the trajectory of the client in their understanding of their illness. Complexity science illuminates the nature of the transition process and changes that occur while a…

U.S. prison population over the past twenty-five years has been openly discussed, few studies examine changes in inequality in imprisonment. This book study’s “penal inequality by guessing lifetime risks of imprisonment for black and white men at different levels of education. Putting together administrative survey, and census data, they guess that among men born between 1965 and 1969, 3 percent of whites and 20 percent of blacks had served time in prison by their early thirties”. The risks of…

Question 1 Leadership, Innovation, and Growth (LIG) is a 4- day program at GE aimed to make the company an innovative organization. Ultimate purpose of LIG program is ultimately to implant growth and innovation into the DNA of the company. The program was successful to move GE into an innovative organization due to involving following key elements; Value of Team Training: Firstly, Team training provided an opportunity for managers to reach a consensus on issues of the change and how they tackle…

The most important word a life coach can learn is “No”. Shelly may have the impression that a boundary may not exist. Shelly should have been advised of number of contacts per day regardless of the method. I would meet with Shelly and revisit set boundaries for communication. Shelly may not know that she have crossed this communication boundary. I would advise Shelly only one method of communication is accurate per day. I will remind her of the 24-48 hour response. Shelly needs to know if she…

In choosing symbolic interactionism for this discussion post I referred to a period of my life spent living and working in a planned retirement community in Norther Arkansas. Working within this community of predominately retired and aged couples offered unique insight into the final chapters of many varied and distinctive lives. Interacting and working for such a highly specific sub-culture presented very specific and often unique challenges. The service industry was the main employer in this…

The emergence of social justice as an opponent of systemic racism abolished institutional racism and left individual racism as a weak, dying sign of ignorance. But, in all of its successes, social justice has failed to cure the black community of poverty—the problem to which black Americans’ disproportionate crime rate can ultimately be attributed. The figures of incarceration do not indicate that there is some corrupt, institutional racism driving the statistics; rather, they manifest a…

Throughout history, and in recent times, the emergence of democracy and the modern state has been the main focus and feature of developing, and developed states. The necessity to be successful in adapting to a developed modern state, or maintain the success of the state on a global international scale, can result from the pre-requisites of the emergence of democracy. In order for states to emerge, they must have the existing pre – requisites of the emergence of democracy and sustained…

From the transition of the Neolithic era to the early agrarian era to the late agrarian era, populations increased, inventions continued to be created, and technologies advanced. Humans began to live an agricultural lifestyle which began in living in villages, villages became towns and towns became cities. The emergence of cities gave human history a new threshold of complexity. The textbook “Big History: Between Nothing and Everything” describes thresholds of complexity as a point where new and…