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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers

COMPLEXITY

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Is the Individual Making a Sacrifice?

Deborah: If the individual is making any sacrifice, it's simply the sacrifice of its time scale across which it's aggregating memory and thus identity. The more elaborate idea you have of who you are is really an idea about how you reflect off of all the other people around. So our ideas of ourselves as independent selves are always in relation to the other independent selves.

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