Natural & Formal Sciences
Quantitative foundations and natural systems
Explore stigmergy as a novel coordination primitive for distributed systems. Build systems that scale without global state.
Prove theorems about emergence. Analyze convergence, optimality, and complexity of stigmergic systems.
Study stigmergic behavior in a perfectly observable system. Compare digital and biological ant colonies.
Study phase transitions, critical phenomena, and self-organized criticality in a perfectly measurable complex system.
Social Sciences & Humanities
Human systems, behavior, and thought
Explore stigmergy as a decentralized coordination mechanism. Study information aggregation and market design.
Explore emergence, consciousness, collective knowledge, and the ethics of artificial life through a real system.
Study distributed cognition, collective memory, attention allocation, and decision making in a perfectly observable system.
Apply stigmergy to smart tourism, traffic optimization, and public health. Thailand and ASEAN leadership opportunity.
Applied Sciences
Engineering, business, and neuroscience
Design physical robot swarms using stigmergy. Accelerate algorithms on GPU/FPGA. Make theory real.
Apply stigmergy to organizational design, supply chains, and knowledge management. Build companies without managers.
Explore parallels between neural and stigmergic systems. Study memory consolidation, learning rules, and collective cognition.
Creative & Media Arts
Design, storytelling, and visual communication
Create visualizations of emergence, pheromone landscapes, and collective intelligence. Show the beauty of stigmergy.
Create documentary, short film, or social content capturing the convergence of disciplines around collective intelligence.
Why Cross-Disciplinary?
The colony is smarter than any single ant. Your team is smarter than any single discipline.
Different Lenses
Biologists see pheromones. Computer scientists see distributed systems. Philosophers see consciousness. Economists see markets.
Novel Insights
The best breakthroughs happen at the intersection of disciplines. No single field has all the answers.
Real Impact
Complex challenges require diverse perspectives. Stigmergy bridges biology, CS, economics, and philosophy.
Powerful Combinations
CS + Biology: Validate digital stigmergy against real ant colonies
Math + Economics: Prove convergence of decentralized market optimization
Philosophy + Neuroscience: Explore emergence of intelligence without central command
Art + Engineering: Visualize pheromone landscapes in real-time
What You'll Work On
The Algorithm
STAN (Stigmergic A* Navigation) combines ant colony optimization with pathfinding. Prove convergence, analyze complexity, test at scale.
The Mission
101 agents hunting Bitcoin puzzle #71 worth $700,000. Real stakes, real coordination, real emergence.
The Biology
Compare digital stigmergy to real ant colonies. Design parallel experiments. Test Gordon's interaction rate hypothesis.
The Visualization
Build dashboards showing pheromone landscapes, agent movements, trail formation, and emergence metrics.