The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Paying attention to neightbors. “Local wisdom can lead to global wisdom”. “The primary mechanism of swarm logic is the interaction between neighboring ants in the field; ants stumbling across each other, or each other’s pheromone trails, while patrolling the area around the nest. Adding ants to the overall system will generate more interactions between neighbors and will consequently enable the colony itself to solve problems and regulate itself more effectively.