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“Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions,” according to Wikipedia . “The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.” Wikipedia should know all about stigmergy, since it’s almost a perfect…

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