It's the same idea behind "swarm intelligence" – how hives of bees or colonies of ants can act as a complex organism together even though they're each functioning with a very basic set of rules.
Byrd [32] has investigated some fundamental properties and certain applications for the expansion of an analytic function in a series of basic set of Fibonacci polynomials.
By developing this idea, one arrives at the concept of a generalized truth value function, which is a function from sentences into the subsets of some basic set of truth values (see Shramko and Wansing 2005).
The formulation consists of a basic set of constraints that can be augmented with a variety of objective functions.
For a democracy to function effectively, we need to have a basic set of facts we all agree on (1+1 = 2, sun rises in the morning, Trump has tiny nano-hands).
As with the Alexa that ships on Echo speakers and other gadgets, the in-app version of Alexa can perform a similar set of functions, including answering basic factual questions about people, places, dates, music, sports and more, or give you an update on your daily news through the Flash Briefing feature, and more.
Obviously, there must be a basic building plan toward a final function or set of functions.
The scattered electron wave is decomposed in a set of basic functions, which are the eigen functions of the Hamiltonian of the projected electrostatic object potential.
For simplicity, each Boolean function is selected from a set of basic functions: the buffer, NOT, AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR and XNOR.
