Re: Those Darn Ants

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From: Bruce Gregory
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00

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[From Bruce Gregory (990423.1528 EDT)]

Bruce Abbott (990423.1340 EST)

> >Bruce Gregory (990423.1400 EDT) --
>
> >Granting that Simon's observation was correct, did he
> understand how the
> >ant's behavior "can be elegantly described by a few simple equations
> >that specify a particular control system"?
>
> I don't know -- does it matter whether he did?  I certainly
> wasn't making
> that claim for him.  What was important for _me_ about it was
> that Simon's
> insight made perfect sense once I understood that the ant was
> behaving as a
> control system does.

Great. I thought you were differing with Bill. I now see you were
agreeing with him.


Bruce Gregory

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