concept

Swarm intelligence

When intelligent, seemingly calculated and goal-directed behavior emerges from countless simple, local interactions between individuals - with no central commander. A honeybee swarm chooses a new nest through quorum sensing: each scout votes with a dance, and once a threshold of scouts favors one site, the whole swarm commits. No single bee holds a map of all the options; the optimal decision emerges anyway. A network that "decides" with no "decider".