[John] I'd argue that the true aspect of social patterning takes a self/other realization that is more than instinctual or hardwired. Every bee seems to react exactly like ever other bee, without choice.
[Krimel] Many human to human interactions especially social ones are heavily hardwired, emotional displays and our responds to those displays in others, for example. It is not true that bees "react exactly like every other bee, without choice". Not sure what choice adds but bees respond differently to worker bees and queens and to bee from "other" hives, same with ants. Slime mold respond to members of "other" colonies differently than to their own. Social behavior and collective action is a biological strategy. It arises from and serves biological success. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
