[ExI] Ants to spike

Max More max at maxmore.com
Mon Oct 19 21:14:37 UTC 2009


Anders wrote:
>jameschoate at austin.rr.com wrote:
> > There are lots of papers on arxiv.org about ants, their behavior, and
> > how they apply it to traffic analysis.
>
>But most of them are about ant algorithms rather than real 
>formicids; learning how Spike's garden ants behave from them is like 
>trying to learn psychology from the robotics papers on arxiv.

Well said, Anders. We all would benefit from more personal 
experimentation in our lives. Reading is easy (and I for one, love 
it. But a real life of growth and learning demands experimentation.)

Max






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