3 One actor is no actor
This chapter covers
- Actors as a hierarchy
- Creating more actors
- Sending messages back and forth and adapting responses
- Sending messages and waiting for a reply
A colony of ants is more than just an aggregate of insects that are living together. One ant is no ant. Two ants, and you begin to get something entirely new. Put a million together with the workers divided into different castes, each doing a different function—cutting the leaves, looking after the queen, taking care of the young, digging the nest out, and so on—and you’ve got an organism weighing about 11 kilograms [24 pounds], about the size of a dog, and dominating an area the size of a house.
—David Suzuki: The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature ...
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