Article:		Swarm Intelligence: An Interview with Eric Bonabeau
Subject:		essence of prey
Date:		2003-03-05 11:01:19
From:		anonymous2
We tend to think of ourselfs as unique beings and would hate to think mimic'ing ants would be superior to the human psyche for a model. Reminds me of the model used in Michael Critcheons Prey. P.S. good read -donna

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• essence of prey
  2003-11-02 05:16:28  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  In addition we tend to think, base our "freedom" of past being over, i.e. not being present. The "Ego-concept" of a "swarm of swarms" with our mind and body resulting from a selective biographic storage principle - out of our present individual control - through self-organized exchange of all our sub-swarms with our sourrounding environment seems not to be acceptable. My guess is that^s due to our selfperception of free beings with the direction of freedom meaning from inside to outside instead of the other way round (subject as "agens" instead of being subject to environment)
  Changing that perception is very difficult both professionally (convince top management to enhance top down management by bottom up principles in order to profit from a more flexible exploration of a chnaging environment) and personally (relate your identity to your relations to instead of controlling the environment often means loosing the power game)
  Looking to the choices it offers I'm sceptical on the future of our Western civilization and advise all my friend to allocae their strategic long term investments in emerging markets (cat intelligence: change environment if it does not serve your needs)
  
  Martin
  
• essence of prey
  2003-11-02 06:14:46  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  within human groups bottom up usually means to replace "coordination" through "motivation" - however, ants seem to be subject to simple co-ordination principles (no delay in response to stimuli) rather than being "motivated" - to what extent consciousness (time out between stimulus and response for checking the most intelligent answer based on embodied past experiences) impacts the concept of swarm intelligence?
  eva

• essence of prey
  2003-05-07 23:40:07  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  prey is more confusing than enlightening. crichton has failed to explain the simplistic turn of events. and yes frankenstein is a better book.

• essence of prey
  2003-04-23 13:42:24  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Dr. Bonabeau speaks of modeling technological systems (not humans) after natural swarm phenomena, so our place in the universe hardly seems threatened by his ideas. At any rate, I'm not sure exactly what human "psyche" means, but I think that the concept of swarm intelligence could be fruitfully applied to our understanding of the human brain, organically a swarming mass of neuronal circuitry and electrical sparks. In other words, swarm intelligence might help us better understand how "mind" emerges from the disparate matter of the brain.
  
  lune k.

• essence of prey
  2003-03-06 08:00:35  Derrick Story | [Reply | View]
  
  
  I stayed away from discussing Crichton's Prey because although the author does spend a fair amount of time educating the reader about these types of technology, he does so mainly to build his Frankenstein-like plot. (BTW: Shelley's Frankenstein is still a better book.) It's fun and a good read, but maybe not for here. If I were having a beer with Eric Bonabeau, then I'd certainly bring it up.