To: Alamo-Girl; Doctor Stochastic; PatrickHenry; js1138; Ronzo
If intelligence is the ability to solve problems - then in groups of such creatures as bees, ants and termites - the intelligence itself is a property of the collective. Each individual bee or termite does not have the mental capacity to solve every problem on its own. The same can be said of the molecular machinery within an organism. Moreover this whole process implies a collective memory which exceeds the mental power of the individual.
This points rather strongly to something beyond the bio/chemistry of the individual ant or molecular machine - most likely, a yet unidentified field.
Just thought this bears repeating, Alamo-Girl! Beautifully said. Thank you!
243 posted on
04/28/2005 9:26:00 AM PDT by
betty boop
(If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. -- Gen. George S. Patton)
To: betty boop
Just thought this bears repeating, Alamo-Girl! Beautifully said. Thank you!Why are you ignoring my request to provide evidence.
245 posted on
04/28/2005 9:29:11 AM PDT by
js1138
(e unum pluribus)
To: betty boop
Thank you so very much for your encouragements!
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