[FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Russ Abbott russ.abbott at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 14:38:01 EDT 2021


I know these are supposed to be not-very-serious examples, but to take them
at least somewhat seriously would you elaborate a bit? Let's focus on the
bucket filling with water. Are you saying that this can be cast as a
stigmergic interaction? How so?

-- Russ


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 11:13 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two abuses of example:
>
> 1. A bucket fills with water, a threshold is met and the bucket switches
> mode to redirect water to the floor.
>
> 2. Baseball players in the field work shape the stats by acting on the
> batting players until a threshold is met and the players switch to the
> batting mode.
>
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