This is just me guessing. Could we get smart communication by researching how neural networks communicate? I mean our brain are full of networks that need to send information. Maybe the smartest protocol could then be derived by letting the network learn.
My imagination tells me that if this is something like the traveling salesman problem then there could be feeling based solution that might be good enough very large problems. Like the brain maybe this could be applied to the Internet also.
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