Now there's synchronicity for you, I just finished viewing a program on the
ways of various insects and this question opts up. I was amazed at the way
some insects go about things and I could not perceive any mechanism by which
they achieved their goals. That a behaviour cannot be understood and appears
rational does not indicate consciousness. What it means is we don't what's
going on.
Anyway, the account is too simple, there may be advantages in letting the
caterpillar eat a few eggs. In the program I saw the ants kept the
caterpillar protected and fed because they fed off the secretions from the
caterpillar's body, and when it did become a butterfly they promptly pushed
it to the outside world and went looking for another caterpillar.
John
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ORFNUGEN6 wrote in message <19990711213834.25488.00007977 at ng-cj1.aol.com>...
>Please comment on the following:
>>tkorrovi at altavista.net wrote:
>>>orfnugen6 at aol.com (ORFNUGEN6) wrote:
>>> It is entirely possible that worms and bees are organic robots
>>> that possess no more consciousness than a vegetable.
>>>> . . . Near the ant´s nest there are allways
>> caterpillars. Every morning caterpillar sings and ants gather near the
>> caterpillar to hear it (with their legs as a vibration of the twig). In
>> spite that caterpillar eats the ant´s eggs the ants defend it because
>> it sings. So at least the ants have a feelings and it is very possible
>> that they are conscious.
>>IS THERE ANOTHER BIOLOGY NEWSGROUP
>WHERE I CAN ASK THIS QUESTION ?????
>>THANK YOU.
