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Properties and Control .................................................................. 328 12.4.3 Biologically Inspired Real-Time Self-Organizing Systems:
The Morphogenesis of the Twenty-First Century .....................335 12.5 Conclusions: Looking Ahead ...................................................................338 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. 339 References ............................................................................................................. 339
Scientists, similar to artists, nd their raison d’être in the willingness to make the world a better place or at least to understand it better-both stem from the same generosity. By better understanding the world around us, we raise consciousness and question the existing order. There are many examples of this in science, engineering, and technology. Two prominent ones are Leonardo da Vinci in the fteenth and sixteenth centuries and Alan Turing in the rst half of the twentieth century. Leonardo, the artist engineer, transcended the boundaries of the arts, anatomy, engineering, architecture, mechanics, and mathematics. His designs of automated machines resembling human or animal bodies (anathomia artificialis) would nowadays belong within the elds of robotics, mechatronics, or bioengineering, as developed in the past 30 years. Leonardo da Vinci was a protocontrol engineer.
