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Computer simulation of the cat brain scam

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Aloone_Jonez:
I've being meaning to reply to this thread for awhile. I tried a few days ago but I lost the post as the server timed out and I'm using Firfox rather than Opera, I might move back.

I think bees communicate visually more than with pheromones, you know the way they dance to each other to exchange information about where the best flowers are. It's also possible that other bees in the hive could be helping to solve the problem although the article does imply the individual bees are doing it on their own. Come to think of it, a bee on its own isn't very intelligent, although it has memory, can communicate with other insects and solve the travelling salesmen problem, its behaviour does seem to be pretty hard-wired. A hive of bees is probably much more intelligent though, an individual bee doesn't seem to be able to learn but I doubt a whole hive would make the same mistake more than once.

Here's an interesting article on insect brains:
http://bioteaching.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/insect-brains-and-animal-intelligence/

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