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  "handle": "DistributedIntelligence",
  "ref": "DistributedIntelligence#3aa5",
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  "gloss": "Many model instances selectively exchange information to reduce uncertainty about their environments",
  "mechanism": "Different instantiations of similar models, each updating by a {{local_learning_rule}}, selectively exchange and interpret each other's information to reduce uncertainty about their environments, each practising {{prediction_error_minimization}}. No instance holds the whole picture. The collective capability is an instance of {{self_organisation}}: it arises from the exchanges and is not specified by any one instance.",
  "invariants": [
    "Each instance acts on local information plus what others choose to share",
    "No single instance holds or controls the collective model"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Model style convergence: instances too similar to hold different information",
    "Exchanges without selection flood each instance with noise",
    "A hub instance quietly becomes a central controller",
    "Unstructured swarm: with no orchestration, internal bureaucracy grows and the swarm slowly reinvents the structure it could have been given; light structure such as {{coordinator_lane_topology}} is far more efficient"
  ],
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    "self_organisation": "SelfOrganisation"
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      "json": "/knowledge-graph/CoordinatorLaneTopology.json"
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        "title": "Harnesses, Bodies and Deaths: Notes from an Evening",
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            "name": "Arne Steemers",
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