Talk:Swarm intelligence

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Has anyone read Michael Crichton's Novel Prey? There are some interesting propositions regarding the way that a swarm might learn complex behavior based on basic preditor-prey heuristics. The biggest problem I see with swarm intelligence learning complex behavior, however, is that the smaller the agent is, the less capability it has to internalize and recognize the environment. Dennett refers to creatures that can do this Popperian. What evidence is there that swarms perform Popperian functions, and what is the possibility that this might be possible?

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The universe seems to be arranged in hierarchies. There are various levels at which you can understand it. The level we are most famililar with is the level of everyday life. Going down we run into the levels of organs, cells, molecular biology, chemistry. Each level has its own laws which work in certian "special cases" with all violations at the "extreams". Complex Adaptive Swarms exhibit similar layered behavior also, at each layer the swarm is made of smaller complex adaptive systems. This layered behavior doesn't appear in swarms made of simple systems. This all seems to imply that either there is no bottom to the layers of the universe(and no TOE) or, the bottom layer is made of smart, adaptive particles.--SurrealWarrior 18:15, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why are the ants gone?

I liked that picture. Was it somehow not appropriate for the article?—GraemeMcRaetalk 19:17, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] references in popular culture

Although they might be related to SI, I would find more appropriate to move this list to the AI article

[edit] researchers list

The list is not exhaustive and it contains no useful information. People interested in SI may find useful links to research groups. People interested in the work of a person will first look at her/his personal page, not this article.

Agreed. There's a reason why this is the only article I've seen where such a list exists -- it isn't particularly helpful. Perhaps it might justify it's existence if it wasn't primarily composed of red links... --Xanthine 16:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree too

I might want to add, that the Micheal O'Neill that is linked to is not the Michael O'Neill who is doing SI.

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