Ants can be though of as a super-organism. This makes them super interesting: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism - http://news.wisc.edu/17398

Ants can be though of as a super-organism. This makes them super interesting: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism - http://news.wisc.edu/17398 - http://jn.nutrition.org/content/137/1/259S.short as much as they are a manifestation of good algorithm design Evolution can be thought of in this way: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1869.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1869.abstract These are usually not signs of "collective intelligence" This is where I disagree. A collection of ants is >> one ant.