An ant colony is like a neural network

Abstract

Ant colonies response to temperature with collective decisions.

Do insects have control over their “pain”?

“…The issue of signal processing and decision-making related to nocifensive behavior becomes even more intriguing when considering the collective response phenomenon in social insects. For example, an ant colony may act as a neural network and make adaptive responses of moving away from noxious heat based on collective information (such as colony size) rather than individual signal processing [4].…”