In response to Selling Nonapples
Comment author: ReadABook 14 November 2008 05:22:50PM -2 points [-]

The idea is similar to swarm logic or artificial life where the concept there is to program a single agent who behaves naturally then put a bunch of them together and you get natural behavior. The idea of emergent behavior from smaller parts is of great interest in the defense industry.

Stanley used a Markov model.

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