Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list
Marco Giancotti , July 10, 2025 Cover image: Termite mound cross-section, Wikimedia Commons Termites and ants have no central planning. There are no architect ants in a nest-building project, no sponsors or supervisors, no instructions. Each worker is unaware and completely uninterested in what form the final mega-structure will take. No blueprints are to be found in any of their minds or outside them. Yet they build them all the time, and very well, too. Their substitute for plans and bluepri