{"id":27,"date":"2007-07-18T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaytoreality.com\/brains-behaviour\/2007\/national-geographic-swarm-behaviour"},"modified":"2007-07-18T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T13:06:24","slug":"national-geographic-swarm-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/18\/national-geographic-swarm-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic: Swarm Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www7.nationalgeographic.com\/ngm\/0707\/feature5\/index.html\">National Geographic&#8217;s Swarm Behaviour<\/a> is a thoroughly interesting article on insect behaviour. It discusses how research into insect behaviour is leading to new techniques in problem-solving, management, and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>It even could shed light on humans and our behaviour. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A honeybee never sees the big picture any more than you or I do,&#8221; says Thomas Seeley, the bee expert. &#8220;None of us knows what society as a whole needs, but we look around and say, oh, they need someone to volunteer at school, or mow the church lawn, or help in a political campaign.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very often, we don&#8217;t try to see intelligence elsewhere. We&#8217;ve created a definition of intelligence based on what we know.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that us humans are pattern recognition and replication machines with vastly more soft-wiring than other creatures. Even so, there&#8217;s still a lot of hard-wiring and hormonal influences, much more than we would like to believe.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly swarm, drawn to volunteering to mow church lawns or queue for iPhones. Whatever we do, we love to believe we can justify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic&#8217;s Swarm Behaviour is a thoroughly interesting article on insect behaviour. It discusses how research into insect behaviour is leading to new techniques in problem-solving, management, and artificial intelligence. It even could shed light on humans and our behaviour. &#8220;A honeybee never sees the big picture any more than you or I do,&#8221; says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brains-behaviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}