Philosophy
Ant colonies challenge our intuitions about mind, intelligence, and ethics. Where does colony intelligence reside - in individual ants, their interactions, or the pheromone-modified environment? The extended mind hypothesis finds compelling support in stigmergy. We also explore how ethical behavior can emerge from selection pressure rather than explicit rules, and what it means for consciousness to be distributed rather than localized.
Projects in Philosophy
3 active projects applying stigmergic intelligence
Is the colony's intelligence in the ants, their interactions, or the environment?
How ethical behavior evolves through selection pressure without hard-coded rules
What does awareness mean for a system with no central executive?
Key Applications
How stigmergic AI transforms philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Ethics of emergence
Extended cognition
Collective intelligence
AI ethics
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