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Artificial Intelligence and Swarm Cognition
August 12th, 2010The Economist on artificial intelligence and our own brains:
Proponents of so-called swarm cognition, like Dr Trianni, think the brain might work like a swarm of nerve cells, with no top-down co-ordination. Even complex cognitive functions, such as abstract reasoning and consciousness, they suggest, might simply emerge from local interactions of nerve cells doing their waggle dances.
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