Reading Assignment!

13 – Waldrop 1992 Interaction

Read the selections from Waldrop (1992) about interaction, and answer the following questions:

• (pages 62-65) Write a paragraph that explains what is meant by the following sentence: “Complex systems can be described by nonlinear dynamics.”

• (pages 110-112)

• Real genes are controlled by how many other genes?

• What happens to a whole, two-input network of genes when one gene is changed?

• What is the outcome of a sparsely connected network?

• (pages 158-159) According to Hebb, how does the brain work?