Networks

January 12, 2006 6:52 PM

Networksare everywhere. Connectionists think of our brains as neural networks. Some people think networks are changing society. Some people would like to use networks to change society. Others think of the earth as a self-organising network.
posted by MetaMonkey (9 comments total)

Gorgeous, gorgeous links. Thank you.
posted by loquacious at 7:17 PM on January 12, 2006

Very very excellent. +10.
posted by kjell at 7:23 PM on January 12, 2006

Take that you single-linkers!
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:40 PM on January 12, 2006

Everywhere?
posted by null terminated at 7:41 PM on January 12, 2006

Not all networks - social, neural, or whatever - are on the internet.
posted by troutfishing at 7:59 PM on January 12, 2006

If you really want to know about networks, you should probably start here. Ahem.
posted by scalefree at 8:50 PM on January 12, 2006

nice post MetaMonkey. my neural network is too overloaded to process the information that you have presented for us but perhaps i will be able to parse it after a good night's rest.

oh boy scalefree... cellular automata... *yummy*
posted by daHIFI at 9:21 PM on January 12, 2006

There's no true network but the Internets and SMTP is its messenger.
posted by NewBornHippy at 11:46 PM on January 12, 2006

I especially enjoyed the First Monday articles and the Capra interviews. Thanks.
posted by unknowncommand at 9:51 AM on January 13, 2006