So, the question is, “What is the meta-pattern in behavior that constitutes a “a personality”. A personality is just a constant bias in behavior of an individual across all situations. “Jones comes late to every occasion; that’s just his personality.” “My computer crashes no matter what program you run on it: it has its own personality.” “Rover is scared of every damned thing—thunderstorms, motor cycles; even squirrels freak him out; he has a timid personality.” Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Charles Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:25 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] BBC News - Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment Weird that they want to call it "personality" instead of more simply saying that ant colonies seem to adapt to their local environment. Of course, the flashiness of the claim is the only reason it is being covered on the BBC, so I guess it isn't that weird after all. ----------- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Lab Manager Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning American University, Hurst Hall Room 203A 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20016 phone: (202) 885-3867 fax: (202) 885-1190 email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: A few swarm inteligence from the 90s described that. Scott Kelly's "Fast Cheap and Out of Controll" touched on that. In his case they knew ants (and often uncles) could pass around experience- and displayed something simillar to hummans sense of experience they didn't have a explination. Then again his forray into science was from the 90s. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: So who is going to integrate this into the sugar model? http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28658268 =================================== Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . 505-473-9646 <tel:505-473-9646> =================================== ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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