Magic

• stigmergy a spontaneous, indirect coordination of actions, where the result of one action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action
• Introducing chaos, Ziauddin Sardar PDF ebook
• Conway's Game of Life
• Emergence - Wikipedia
• ECCO
• the tao of physics fritjof capra also his book 'the web of life' is worth reading
• Julia set wikipedia article
• Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia
• Conways game of life wikipedia article
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid book by Douglas Hofstadter. a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.
• Turtles, termites and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds -Mitchel Resnick
• time to do the 23 skidoo