&gt; swarm methodologies are about empowering individual agents with intelligence and information<p>man, it is gold. Sounds like a great pitch to lure into the swarm... Yet it is completely contradictory. Swarm is called swarm because it consists of insects. For swarm intelligence to work, individual intelligence must be dumpened, almost turned off, and the information dispensed to an individual must be minimal to avoid his&#x2F;her swerving off its prescribed course of action that the intermediate or global plan&#x2F;context may be heavily depended upon. It is like with a bricklayer or a soldier on the mission - him seeing  and thus possibly trying to optimize the global plan especially by altering his mission&#x2F;plan or its place&#x2F;time inside the larger may affect his carrying over of the mission or the bricklaying scheme and thus endanger the bigger context.<p>&gt;Isn&#x27;t this only a problem because the &quot;local context&quot; is limited?<p>it isn&#x27;t a problem. It is a feature.<p>&gt;Humans can handle really large &quot;local contexts&quot;<p>not really. This is why we have abstraction process.