From The Morning Paper
The âreward equationâ models how ants communicate using pheromones, and our own brains keep track of rewards using dopamine. The reward equation includes a decay or âforgettingâ parameter, so what happens if you disrupt established solutions for long enough that their hold is broken?
If you disrupt all of the pheromone trails around their nest, is that they converge on a new solution in the environment, but it wonât necessarily look the same as the one they had before the disruption