Artificial vs Natural Intelligence
Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.
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Website, Rewilded
New website is live! In August 2024 the former adappt.io was renamed to adaptive-emergent.com to narrow the scope from web3 distributed networks to biomimetic ones (read the three part series on this starting here). Along with the name change was a new website, written with Claude AI as it was at the time.
26-Oct-2025
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History of A-E
adappt’s heritage is in its name. Read all parts to this series: In part one, we reviewed what was adappt.io, from 2015 to 2024.
View seriesBiomimicry Institute – Ray of Hope Accelerator
The accelerator targets startups explicitly using biological signalling, coordination, and adaptation principles. These programs often surface applied implementations of swarm intelligence and collective sensing before they appear in formal literature.
27-Mar-2026
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Biomimicry Institute – Ray of Hope Accelerator
The accelerator targets startups explicitly using biological signalling, coordination, and adaptation principles. These programs often surface applied implementations of swarm intelligence and collective sensing before they appear in formal literature.
27-Mar-2026
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Perch helps identify bird species
Google DeepMind’s Perch model helps conservationists analyze audio faster to protect endangered species, from Hawaiian honeycreepers to coral reefs.
07-Aug-2025
Read morePart 1: What Do We Mean By 'Agent'?
In 2025 the term “agent” has been dusted off and it is seeing another time in the sun.
09-Jul-2025
Read moreNature and Cybersecurity
This is part 3 of the Tide Foundation’s five part series on their distributed approach to securing computers.
22-Jan-2025
Read moreAnts best humans at collective intelligence
https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence
30-Dec-2024
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Part 4: Purpose vs Emergence
In previous articles we defined terms like agent and swarms, and looked at a major difference between natural and artificial adaptation, time.
20-Jul-2025
Read morePart 5: Collective Memory
This is the fifth of seven articles in the series comparing Nature with AI and how they approach agents.
17-Aug-2025
Read morePart 6: Words Matter, Swarms Revisited
In particular areas of human endeavour, precision in language matters, such as contract law.
30-Aug-2025
Read morePart 7: Wrap Up and What's Next
Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.
30-Aug-2025
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