Swarm Intelligence

chapter

one

Models and Concepts of Life

and Intelligence

This chapter begins to set the stage for the

computational intelligence paradigm we call

“particle swarm,” which will be the focus

of the second half of the book. As human

cognition is really the gold standard for in-

telligence, we will, as artificial intelligence

researchers have done before us, base our

model on people’s thinking. Unlike many

previous AI researchers, though, we do not

subscribe to the view of mind as equivalent

to brain, as a private internal process, as

some set of mechanistic dynamics, and we

deemphasize the autonomy of the individual

thinker. The currently prevailing cognitivist