Re: is communication a requirement to collaborate?

>  > Is collaboration possible without communication?
> 
> By "without communication", I mean: no exchange of any information 
> whatsoever - not before collaboration, not during collaboration, not 
> through the environment, not through signals and not through direct means.

What do you meam by "collaboration" then?

It seems to me that without the ability the influence one another in any 
way, agents who are engaged in some dynamics are "ballistic."  If they 
"collaborate," it's by appearances only: i.e., to an outside observer it 
appears they are working together, but in reality if you erased one of the 
agents the other one would keep doing whatever it was doing, unaffected.

It's perverse to call that collaboration, isn't it?

Anthony