Simplifying Complexity

What makes ant colonies robust?

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Nov 14, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Ant Colony's Robustness Demonstrated

  • Ant colonies remain functional even after losing a thousand workers suddenly.
  • Other ants quickly compensate, taking over the missing ants' roles like foraging.
INSIGHT

Defining Robustness in Complex Systems

  • Robustness means maintaining function or structure despite disturbances.
  • Ant colonies show functional robustness despite lacking a fixed physical structure.
ANECDOTE

Rubik's Cube: Non-Robust Structure

  • Rubik's Cube is an example of a system with non-robust structure.
  • Slight disturbances destroy its organized pattern and restoring it is difficult.
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