Constructing a maze by removing walls and finding a path through a maze are very similar and can be done by recursion or backtracking, both of which are equivalent to a mouse leaving his scent along a path and then backing up to a place opening without a scent when it hits a dead end.
Ed > On Mar 2, 2021, at 10:07 AM, <thompnicks...@gmail.com> > <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, except that mazes vastly reduce the number of possibilities and ought, > therefore, to be way simpler than the ant problem > > Also, I think that rats get a bit more information from their olfactory cues > than steve's ants do. On the other hand, there are many ants working at > once, and we are concerned, in the maze situation, with a single rat in a > clean maze, a laughably over simplified problem give a rats normal way of > life. It is what it is. > > Nick > > Nick Thompson > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale > Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:26 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] solving mazes > > Ok, so getting rid of the walls altogether can we imagine these as SteveG's > ants? Is there anything more to it? > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
