Status Updates From Worlds Hidden in Plain Sigh...

The book is a collection of short articles. While it lacks the coherence of a single story, it offers a fresh perspective on a multitude of issues. Complexity is the common theme, which results in some nice lateral thinking.

Each of the systems interacts with its environment in a game-like way...The environment typically exhibits a range of regularities or niches, that can be exploited by different action sequences or strategies....At all levels, the competitive interactions give rise to counterparts of the familiar interactions of population biology—symbiosis, parasitism, competitive exclusion, and the like.

Just…wow