Re: of(f) course

[christer@galaxy.ling.lu.se (Christer Johansson) (by way of VanessaStevens Colella)]

Staffan Liljegren wrote:
 > Each person in the audience could guide either up-down
 > or left-right and this was then fed into navigation
 > of the virtual airplane. The emergent behaviour -
 > of course - was that the virtual aircraft was safely
 > guided through most of the  landscape.


 My question is "why "of course"?" It seems to me that whenever there is a
conflict in turning up/down or left/right to avoid an obstacle the audience
would react differently and the average would be a head-on collision.
 How could that be solved without barring some "emergent" alternatives? Or
does
"emergent" in this setting only mean "the most common behaviour" (with some
default option perhaps ...?).
 A way to put the question might be "how does emergent behaviour avoid the
average?".

 This might be a silly question - if it is I hope Vanessa will edit it :-)


 /Christer