ORFNUGEN6 (orfnugen6 at aol.com) wrote:
: >> It is entirely possible that worms and bees are organic robots
: >> that possess no more consciousness than a vegetable.
Not to get into the counsciousness thing, but...
Make a little maze that looks like a tree graph, and put sugar at the end
of one of the branches. Then see how long it takes for an ant to let other ants
at the bottom of the tree graph know that there is sugar at the end of one of
the branches. According to an article mentioned in Ballard's book "Natural
Computation", it takes less time for the ants to communicate the position of
the sugar if there is a regularity to the path to the sugar (e.g. Left left
left), than for the other situations. So there's a language between ants, and
it even uses a minimum description length kind of principle...
Didier
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