interesting the universe seems to be arranged in hierarchies there are various levels at which you can understand it the level we are most famililar with is the level of everyday life going down we run into the levels of organs cells molecular biology chemistry each level has its own laws which work in certian special cases with all violations at the extreams complex adaptive swarms exhibit similar layered behavior also at each layer the swarm is made of smaller complex adaptive systems this layered behavior doesn't appear in swarms made of simple systems this all seems to imply that either there is no bottom to the layers of the universe and no toe or the bottom layer is made of smart adaptive particles