Cory doctorow has a great short story about harnessing the swarming intelligence of things like ants to reroute everything from electricity to data to traffic. The story is called Human Readable, you can listen to his podcast reading of it starting here: http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=6&paged=10 Group mind! Run away, run away! They don't call it a Hive Mind for nothing. Neurons can't do much on their own. Put a few together, and.you can get thought. We just can't imagine our brain cells having thoughts of their own. Our views can be very homocentric at times, and some of the discoveries in nature do not have definitions, as we are discovering properties of a phenomena, without fully understanding their contribution to the whole. This understanding will come through continued study of the connection of individuals in a species or group to each other, to other species, and environmental conditions. Meanwhile theory and metaphors, can help us create a picture to which we can attach findings. If findings contradict a theory, we have to find out where the theo... clipmarks is a bit like a hive of activity, and thanks for clippin' this I read some of the article in national geo and was going to hunt it down and clip it Pokkets... very insightful thoughts! |
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