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I walked into class without knowing much about emergence except that it was a Biology/Computer Science class and I was not comfortable about the Biology since I am not a Science person at all. I did not even know what to expect in the class, but this course has certainly taught me to think in a different manner. Particularly, I was not a big fan of the CA, but really enjoyed the "social organizations without a director" models and learning about complexity from simplicity through the Game of Life and Langton's Ant. Like Natsu mentions, it is great to have simplicity around and I would always want to have an expected outcome which could be explained for the plain reason that it gives security. But while I was working on my model, I realized that I wanted to model something that would be at least surprising, if not complex and for the first time, didnt worry about how it can be explained through certain equations or theories, but how it could be discussed in broad terms to sort of advance the idea.

I also really enjoyed reading Linked and learning more about networks. It was surprising to see how much emergence can be related to networks and how since networks connect to almost everything else around us, its amazing that emergence sort of connects with everything. I was especially fascinated with the way emergence connects to social science and thats the reason why I tried to model corruption - lets see how far I can take that!