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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by bobosha on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:08AM (#22063752)
>Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.

Or perhaps like a Fourier decomposition of a complex waveform. Whereby each ant essentially becomes a constituent "wave" in a complex signal.

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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by K0SM0S on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:32PM (#22070257)
That's my intuition for the brain, as well. Something to do with composition and relative independence, from which arise incredible complexity, "multi-dimensional" processing — it's a big, big graph.

You might have to consider several such "waves" in ant colonies — maybe one electrically defined for a certain type of information; another chemically defined for another domain; etc.

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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by anonytrary on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:18PM (#22080684)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuramoto_model
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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by K0SM0S on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:23PM (#22081156)
Immensely interesting food for thought. Thanks!
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