As marmaduke says in his post, once you have a lot of components in a system you may be able to use existing components to wire new capabilities. Who would have

As marmaduke says in his post, once you have a lot of components in a system you may be able to use existing components to wire new capabilities. Who would have known? One might claim that from the model emerge the properties of modularization, hierarchy, data-hiding, and possibly even messaging and object-orientation! Reminds me of Lenat's AM (Automated Mathematician) and Eurisko since the researcher's control and interpretation is so heavily involved in the process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko "Functioning, virtual brain"? I think the creator is trying to sell a book.