Constructing a maze by removing walls and finding a path through a maze are very similar and can be done by recursion or backtracking, both of which are equivalent to a mouse leaving his scent along a path and then backing up to a place opening without a scent when it hits a dead end.
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> Well, except that mazes vastly reduce the number of possibilities and ought,
> therefore, to be way simpler than the ant problem
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> Also, I think that rats get a bit more information from their olfactory cues
> than steve's ants do. On the other hand, there are many ants working at
> once, and we are concerned, in the maze situation, with a single rat in a
> clean maze, a laughably over simplified problem give a rats normal way of
> life. It is what it is.
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> Nick
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> Ok, so getting rid of the walls altogether can we imagine these as SteveG's
> ants? Is there anything more to it?
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