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What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference
Social insects like ants and bees show adaptive collective behaviour, that is they solve problems by using cooperation, communication, and distributed decision-making. In this, they are models for other complex systems from brains to power grids. However, they also exemplify lessons science has learned from biology recently, about how the world works much more broadly: much information is encoded in algorithms rather than fixed structures.
