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Ludic Cerebration The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority Nassim Nicholas Taleb Incerto