Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Ants engage in production systems

Fire ants assemble as a 'super-organism' 
HT Instapundit

What is the point? Primitive ants simulate liquidity from discrete components. Each ant seeks to obtain the same constant of uncertainty about their relative position in the chain, they are actually minimizing neuronal activity. This is information theory, this is maximum entropy spontaneous order. It fundamental, and advanced animals do this with fewer points along the curve.

No comments: