Many people want to be in charge of a situation. I found a lot of similarities between how our brain works and how this parallel algorithm works. We used to think that the brain works more linearly with just recognition and reflection. However, as the science has made it clearer little by little, it turns out to be more complicated than that.
Many neurons work at the same time, and somehow each information is processed in parallel.
Unlike Logo turtle, I think StarLogo deals with this very parallel distributed processing. I actually downloaded StarLogo PC version about a half year ago, but at that time I looked at several sample projects and didn't do anything further than that. But this time, we were encouraged to look into the box by changing parameters and even encouraged to create our own model. I noticed the difference between PC version and Mac version was enormous. I mainly worked on PC version, which made it rather difficult to associate what's going on with what each turtle or patch symbolizes.