This reading made me think about how our systems are composed and the relation between them. The introduction gives an example with ants and how a singular ant is a rather simple entity with a set of simple tasks. Nevertheless, if put together a multitude of ants, the number of tasks and its complexity increases. Similar examples can be found even in even more complex things, such as computers. A singular computer is capable of doing an almost infinite set of tasks if properly handled, the same can not be said for a set of computers since the difficulty of handling them increases.
The reading also made me realize that in our life everything is part from a sequential process of parallelism, iterations, and adaptation. For example, in my life I had to do multiple things at once in order to get something, I had to continue fighting for what I wanted continuously and adapted into new environments. This sequential process will be cycled over and over again; nothing to be afraid of, it’s part of life.
And lastly, this reading made me reflect on how we can interconnect between different languages (using the different sciences as an example from the book). For example, something that only artists could do now is able to be imitated and understood by people who lack the advanced knowledge. In other words, if I want to paint the Mona Lisa, the computer could tell me the exact steps that were taken in order to reproduce such a piece. This is thanks to this “translation” process.