It is amazing how this system is used so much in this modern world. The results will be random at first because the programs canвЂ™t differentiate between things yet but if the process is repeated many times the programs can start to recognize patterns and be incorporated into problem solving applications. Each program has to be taught to recognize whatever they are supposed to do and then report to a higher program that interprets the results of all the smaller programs observations. Every one of those programs actually work together to find out the problem they are trying to solve. I thought that computers were made of many programs that are able to tell exactly what something is but it takes more than that. Computers are actually a lot less exact than most people think. One part that I found very interesting is where he described how computers and similar systems use patterns to solve problems and find out whatever they are made to do. I just do not think he ever relates what he says in the last half of the reading back to the ants but that might just be me. It is kind of odd though that he talks about the ants for about two pages and then never really comes back to them. Right at the beginning of the essay he starts to show his goal by relating the ants in the crammed box to the New York subway system. It was very interesting how Johnson described everything in this world as a kind of ordered chaos. This was a very interesting read like many in this book.

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