On 10/12/2011 09:34 PM, Darren New wrote:

> I read way back when transistors were something you bought one at a time
> about various smart devices built on just a small number of transistors.
> For example, there were little carts that would go and seek out bright
> spaces near other carts with a light on top until their batteries
> started to run down, at which point they'd go find a dark spot to
> recharge. That one was, IIRC, like three transistors worth of logic. So
> yeah, surprisingly complicated behavior can arise out of very simple
> logic. (Or more appropriately we only think it's surprisingly complicated.)

It still impresses me that you can build complex self-organising, 
self-replicating and self-repairing structures using something as 
trivial as the reaction/diffusion equations. Man, if only I understood 
how the **** that actually works...

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