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蚂蚁智力
Collectiveintelligence: ：Antsandbrain'sneurons
STANFORD -An individual ant isnot very bright, but ants ina colony,
operatingasacollective,doremarkablethings.
Asingleneuroninthehumanbraincanrespondonlytowhattheneurons
connectedtoitaredoing,butallofthemtogethercanbeImmanuelKant.
ThatresemblanceiswhyDeborahM.Gordon,StanfordUniversityassistant
professorofbiologicalsciences,studiesants.
"I'minterestedinthekindofsystemwheresimpleunitstogetherdobehave
incomplicatedways,"shesaid.
Noonegivesordersinanantcolony,yeteachantdecideswhattodonext.
Forinstance,anantmayhaveseveraljobdescriptions.Whenthecolony
discoversanewsourceoffood,anantdoinghousekeepingdutymaysuddenly
becomeaforager .Orifthecolony'sterritorysizeexpandsorcontracts,patroller
an