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xanthes94 t1_isfcabf wrote

From my understanding they don’t display complex behavior. Experiments ran with nano bots show that colony organisms that display “complex behavior” when moving is just a side effect of random motion. When you have a lot of things all performing random motion, they tend to organize because thermodynamics favors that they all move a certain way.

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Dave30954 t1_isgcf9e wrote

Ooh! That’s so cool, what is it that they all tend to do?

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p-terydactyl t1_ishkw49 wrote

The complex behavior would be how we manipulate those simple processes kind of like binary, it's only 1 and 0 but we can manipulate it to do extremely complex tasks

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VivendusMoriendumEst t1_isi9llq wrote

Yeah the way I'd put it, the "behavior" is more a result of the physical interaction of the parts and environment rather than the active sensation-response-sensation system of ants and whatnot

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antiquemule t1_isiwrzx wrote

Yep. I am underwhelmed. The PR offices of MIT and Harvard love overselling this kind of stuff.

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MilkofGuthix t1_isgr7cv wrote

Ahh similar to the game of life?

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SkooksOnReddit t1_ish21dc wrote

Game of life is set on simple rules. What the commenter described is expending the least amount of energy.

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