How Is Flocking Like Computing?
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
Mar 28, 2024
Readers know we've touched on this theme over and over through the years. "So, how does the brain represent space-time? And how does that matter in terms of decisions? And what on earth does that have to do with collective behavior of animals? What I realized about five years ago, is that I think there's a deep mathematical similarity." This article looks into the question of how individual starlings - or locusts, or humans - become attuned to each other, explaining self-organization as an evolutionary process, and ponders the resulting "deep geometric principles, about how the brain represents space and also time."
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