Emergence

I guess the connection I found between the ants topic and what we've been doing in class recently is basically the art of communication. The reading brought up a neat point on how simple the ant communication and lifestyle is and yet look how successful and abundant their species is. It then went on to note how computers have a very simple foundation of how they work, 0's an 1's. Is that a hint that computers have the potential to slowly work their way up the evolutionary ladder at some point as well? Without the the help of human? The reading says it's "better to have a densely interconnected system with simple elements, and let the more sophisticated behavior trickle up." I thought that was an interesting viewpoint. But overall like some others said the topic threw me off at first from what we've been reading recently.