Abstract
The origin of intelligence has fascinated scientists for a long time. Over the past 100 years, many scholars started to observe the connection between entropy and intelligence. Recently, as an important advance, the physical relationship between the individual intelligence (cognition) and the entropy maximization has been established. Here we make an effort to investigate a possible origin of the swarm intelligence in humans. Our study shows that a competitive economy consisting of a large number of self-interested agents can be mapped to a many-particle Boltzmann system, where entropy and energy will play the roles of swarm intelligence and income, respectively. Furthermore, we employ the household income data from 60 countries to test the validity of Boltzmann distribution and chemical potential. Remarkably, the empirical data perfectly agrees with the theoretical results. Our finding implies that the competitive behaviors among a colony of self-interested agents will spontaneously prompt the colony to evolve to a state of higher technology progress, though each agent has no willingness to do this.
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