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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by sinsterizme on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:39AM (#22065490)
I don’t think because we can solve the problem with differential equations necessarily means that our subconscious mind is solving it in the same way. There’s certainly other possible explanations
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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by ajuc on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:22PM (#22069653)
Whatever it's doing it takes the same inputs and gets the same outputs, how else would you call it?

Do you agree at least that a xor gate is doing math?

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