floys ahoy
September 4, 2002
floys are simple artificial life forms ("alifes" in AI geekspeak) that demonstrate the basic principle of emergent intelligence: that complex "mass mind" behaviors can sprout when a group of individual entities follow relatively simple behavioral rules (via howard bloom).
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