
chapter
eleven
And in Conclusion...
This book is about a complex kind of infor-
mation processing that can be performed by
a simple computer program. The whole thing
can be written in a few dozen lines of code,
and most of the time it is used to solve tough
math problems. Human minds and social be-
havior provide the metaphors for explaining
how the program works. Alternatively, this
book is about minds and intelligence and
how they emerge from the dynamics of so-
cial interaction. This sociocognitive theoreti-
cal view is supported by simple computer
simulations.
Several motifs have recurred throughout
the telling of this story; some of them were
intentional, ...