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If Alan Kay is to be believed (which I hope he is!) then the internet was originally inspired by multicellular lifeforms. I'd say the internet has some sort of

• lioeters 5y ago
  That's an interesting point about how the Internet has a kind of "biological architecture", whose chaotic and self-organizing nature makes it robust and resilient. It's the same quality that's claimed by proponents of "decentralized autonomous organizations" (DAO), though for that I'm not yet convinced of its practicality. Someone on this thread mentioned the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. > Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. This reminds me of the concept of "emergence" in living systems. > the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence