EXPERIMENT 08● RUNNING
ONE ANT
What can one agent accomplish alone?
The exact same agent logic, run with 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 ants on the same map.
Question
What can one agent accomplish alone?
Conditions
Same 48×30 map and food source for all four.
Rules
Identical agent rules. A single ant still lays pheromones, but nobody reinforces them.
Pass rule
No pass rule — comparing return per ant across population sizes.
Control
The 1-ant run.
Limitations
Crowding effects are simplified.
At what point does individual behavior become collective intelligence?