Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
Jordana Cepelewicz, Nautilus, 2019/03/06
According to this article, " In a paper published earlier this month in Science Advances, for instance, a team led by Neil Johnson, now a physicist at George Washington University, demonstrated that a decentralized model performed best under Goldilocks conditions, when its parts were neither too simple nor too capable." The headline of the Nautilus article suggests an explanation for the phenomenon. More...