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The trilogy
Behaviour in swarms
Ecology
What happens when agents become populations?
Ecology follows the interactions that appear when agents become numerous: crowded channels, copied beliefs, and emerging roles. Its proposed experiments hold a task steady while changing population size, visibility, or access to information.
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Ecology I — AccessProposed experiment · 2 min
When the Senders Are Machines
An inbox, fifty messages of attention, and a growing population of machine senders.
Read the noteEcology II — CascadeProposed experiment · 2 min
When Agents Learn From Agents
How one unverified observation could become apparent consensus across a population.
Read the noteEcology III — NicheProposed experiment · 2 min
The Division of Labour in a Swarm
A hundred agents share one job. How might some become specialists and others indispensable?
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