Swarm Ecology: Metabolism, Persistence, and the Darwinization of the Datasphere

The companion paper to the flagship Perspective, giving the full argument, the evidence with who reasoned in each case, the models, and the physics of the long arc. The flagship cites it for the type and section of each principle (Table 1), the motivation for each prediction (Table 2), and the fuller treatment of operational language (§1), parasites (§4), and observer modeling (§8).

Cited in

the flagship Perspective (Flagship: Introduction, Who feeds on whom, Organisms that read us, Table 1, Table 2)

Used for

Table 1; Table 2; full argument

Strand

Swarm Ecology program · Swarm Ecology program papers

Cite

@misc{garrido2026metabolism,
  title = {Swarm Ecology: Metabolism, Persistence, and the Darwinization of the Datasphere},
  author = {Diego Garrido and Swarm Ecology Working Group},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Companion paper to "Swarm Ecology: Organisms That Study Us Back"},
}