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I would guess(without much evidence) that you don't need much cognition in each individual ant. You can get very complex behaviours out of very simple rules in
by eigenket 3y ago
I would guess(without much evidence) that you don't need much cognition in each individual ant. You can get very complex behaviours out of very simple rules in idealised systems like cellular automata.
My bias (for essentially aesthetic reasons) is to assume that each ant is basically pretty dumb, and the cool complex behaviors happen as an emergent property of how they respond to the stimuli they recieve (especially all the pheromone messages they get from other ants).
- hdyddbbbbbb 3y ago[dead]
- datameta 3y agoI have a similar hunch. They seem to be a distributed sensor, compute, and actuator network.
- SCM-Enthusiast 3y ago>each ant is basically pretty dumb, and the cool complex behaviors happen as an emergent property of how they respond to the stimuli they recieve (especially all the pheromone messages they get from other ants). Can't ants be swapped out as humans here?