When we talk about bottom-up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.
当我们讨论这些自下而上，去中心化的现象时， 蚁巢就是这一类的经典比喻，因为我们知道， 每一个单独的蚂蚁并不知道它们在做什么， 但是通过集体，蚂蚁们能够做出惊人的智慧决策。