{"id":343,"date":"2014-06-23T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:27:18","slug":"neurons-interactions-like-foraging-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/neurons-interactions-like-foraging-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuronal interactions vs ants interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:15px; padding-top:2px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#84FF5E\";var hupso_border_t=\"#FFE959\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"SwarmStrength\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Neuronal%20interactions%20vs%20ants%20interactions\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Can we consider individual ants as analogous to individual neurons?<br \/>\n<a title=\"TedSpeaker Deborah Gordon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/deborah_gordon\">Deborah\u00a0Gordon<\/a>, a biologist at Stanford University, has identified striking similarities in how ant colonies, brains, cells and computer networks regulate themselves. She\u00a0says:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ants aren&#8217;t smart. Ant colonies are. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest path to the\u00a0best food source, allocating workers to different tasks, or defending a territory from neighbors. As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies\u00a0they respond quickly and effectively to their environment. They do it with something called swarm intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;interactions are used to activate the ants foraging. An outgoing forager doesn&#8217;t go out unless it gets enough interactions with returning foragers. This makes sense for the ant colony, because the more food there is out there, the more quickly the foragers find it, the faster they come back, and the more foragers they send out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So just as a neuron adds up its stimulation\u00a0from other neurons to decide whether to fire,\u00a0an ant adds up its stimulation from other ants\u00a0to decide whether to forage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ant_neuron1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-320 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ant_neuron1.jpg\" alt=\"ant_neuron\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ant_neuron1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ant_neuron1-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When in the 2012 Debora Gordon meet Goldman, a neuroscientist at the University of California something clicked and they came to the conclusion that:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of these systems accumulate evidence about their inputs\u2014returning ants or incoming voltage pulses\u2014to make their decisions about whether to generate an output\u2014an outgoing forager or a packet of neurotransmitter,\u201d &#8211; Mark Goldman.<\/p>\n<p>Ants would be used to study the brain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_349\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/neurons.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-349 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swarm-intelligence.it\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/neurons-e1403562909955.jpg\" alt=\"CC License by juliendn\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juliendn\/3347475063\/\" target=\"blank\">CC License by juliendn<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:15px; padding-top:2px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#84FF5E\";var hupso_border_t=\"#FFE959\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"SwarmStrength\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Neuronal%20interactions%20vs%20ants%20interactions\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we consider individual ants as analogous to individual neurons? Deborah\u00a0Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, has identified striking similarities in how ant colonies, brains, cells and computer networks regulate themselves. 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