A swarm of individually dumb insects display remarkable emergent properties. Here are some examples. None are adaptive. None profound. All are interesting.

1. Dweebs and Bullies

A simple pursuit-evasion example. Bullies chase running Dweebs.

 

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2.Sandpile

Avalanches in sand piles as explained in Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan

3. Termites

 
 

4. Worm Seach

 

 

5. Gnats

Nudging the maverick outlier towards the centroid.es