Facebook is a stigmergic system. Facebook's database is the environment and the posts and comments are the pheromones. In a similar manner, the computational device of the memcomputer can be viewed as the memory, and each processor is an "agent" working on the memory. Given these assumptions, Is there any difference between a memcomputer and a stigmergic system? ~PM
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:14:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [agi] Stigmergy From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Are you suggesting that the environment itself be considered the computing device? On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: OK, now suppose that in both cases the memory were the same, the computational device. Now you have processing elements using a shared memory. Is there any difference now? Just curious, and playing with concepts. Michael / PM Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:44:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [agi] Stigmergy From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Interesting analogy, PM. I think the primary difference would be the location of the memory. With memcomputing, memory becomes a part of the computational device itself. With stigmergy, the external environment is the locus of memory. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: How does memcomputing differ from stigmergy? http://phys.org/news/2015-07-memcomputer-prototype.html http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/6/e1500031.full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy Kindly advise. ~PM AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
