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Quoted: Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.
Quoted: Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.
Quoted: To get a sense of swarms, Dr. Couzin builds computer models of virtual swarms. Each model contains thousands of individual agents, which he can program to follow a few simple rules. To decide what those rules ought to be, he and his colleagues head out to jungles, deserts or oceans to observe animals in action.
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oh! sorry, i just read this as well. you beat me to the draw. :) great article.
THAT was fascinating, misaacs...thanks.
Hey, good hearing from you :-)