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Preface: A moment of panic then a sigh. The study data the college gave me was also on the hard drive that died and the students involved in the study have long since graduated. So I'm winging this from memory. Contributions are most welcome. Now where the heck to begin...
Multiple species or sub species of ants develop a communal nest. As the nest grows outlier nests are formed. - Reference analogy, a sun and planetary gears.
Indicators such nests have formed.
- Workers taking seemingly useless trash back to the nests.
- Entire nests moving from one outlier nest to another with workers transferring the eggs.
Given factor: the sourcing ants that procure resource materials are in all intents and purposes robotic. They execute simplistic rudimentary programs given to them by the hive mind. The hive mind does not operate in a logical manner such as supply and demand.
The equilibrium factor:Comparisons are made by the hive mind between outlier nests. When one is resource rich, roughly a simply computer code equivalent of > greater than, several operations are executed and the workers are given instructions.
1. Transfer resources between nests
2. Search for similar resources utilizing the workers primitive senses, odors = resource, procure and return to other outlier nest.
3. Transfer the entire nest with eggs to the more resource rich nest.
The purpose being establish equilibrium between nests. In computer code a very simplistic program. Too simplistic in several ways.
There is no END or STOP routine at the end of the instruction code. The worker ants in that particular nest at that time will continue to execute that particular search and procude program until they die. Once equilibrium between nests is established the next generations of workers are not given that program to find a particular resource.
- Indicator of the procurement program executing is lone ants randomly wandering around not following the scent trails. If these ants are encountered by the next generations of ants that have new instruction sets and they have an object - the scent of a new procurement program the resource gets handed off to the new sets of workers.
The result of this is the entire community of ants of multiple generations in the various outlier nests executing a variety of search and procure programs. The programming is a constant ongoing function of establishing the equilibrium between outlier nests.
Now multiply the procurement operation by several thousand at any given time. The individual workers of multiple generations and nests each with varying differences in their search and procure programs. = Endless loop, continuing ongoing cycle.
And that is about all I can remember of the study. a constant balancing act of outlier nests attempting to establish equilibrium and each time a nest comes upon a new resource the balance gets thrown off and a new equilibrium program is set into operation.
Multiple species or sub species of ants develop a communal nest. As the nest grows outlier nests are formed. - Reference analogy, a sun and planetary gears.
Indicators such nests have formed.
- Workers taking seemingly useless trash back to the nests.
- Entire nests moving from one outlier nest to another with workers transferring the eggs.
Given factor: the sourcing ants that procure resource materials are in all intents and purposes robotic. They execute simplistic rudimentary programs given to them by the hive mind. The hive mind does not operate in a logical manner such as supply and demand.
The equilibrium factor:Comparisons are made by the hive mind between outlier nests. When one is resource rich, roughly a simply computer code equivalent of > greater than, several operations are executed and the workers are given instructions.
1. Transfer resources between nests
2. Search for similar resources utilizing the workers primitive senses, odors = resource, procure and return to other outlier nest.
3. Transfer the entire nest with eggs to the more resource rich nest.
The purpose being establish equilibrium between nests. In computer code a very simplistic program. Too simplistic in several ways.
There is no END or STOP routine at the end of the instruction code. The worker ants in that particular nest at that time will continue to execute that particular search and procude program until they die. Once equilibrium between nests is established the next generations of workers are not given that program to find a particular resource.
- Indicator of the procurement program executing is lone ants randomly wandering around not following the scent trails. If these ants are encountered by the next generations of ants that have new instruction sets and they have an object - the scent of a new procurement program the resource gets handed off to the new sets of workers.
The result of this is the entire community of ants of multiple generations in the various outlier nests executing a variety of search and procure programs. The programming is a constant ongoing function of establishing the equilibrium between outlier nests.
Now multiply the procurement operation by several thousand at any given time. The individual workers of multiple generations and nests each with varying differences in their search and procure programs. = Endless loop, continuing ongoing cycle.
And that is about all I can remember of the study. a constant balancing act of outlier nests attempting to establish equilibrium and each time a nest comes upon a new resource the balance gets thrown off and a new equilibrium program is set into operation.
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