Swarm Intelligence

centers on a kind of emotional attractiveness of the subject...More than

a paradigm, swarms are almost, at times, an archetype” (Millonas, 1993,

p. 418). Our study, too, of swarm intelligence and collection adaptation

is motivated in part by the uninformed suspicion there is wisdom to be

gained from it, and by the feeling that there is something about the dis-

orderly interactions of dumb actors and their achievements that is just,

well, fascinating. It seems that there is something profound and mean-

ingful in these phenomena, something that transcends the compulsive

rationality imposed by our intellectual tradition. We are pulled toward

the study