GaryGaulin
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| Quote (Woodbine @ April 28 2015,11:10) | | Quote (N.Wells @ April 28 2015,16:09) | So, Gary, in the Kurzweil thread that you found so valuable,
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums.....ynapses :
- one person thinks that insects don't have brains and claims to have been bitten by a wasp (and to have had a detailed conversation with its fellows)...... |
Can't leave it languishing over there, it's too good.....
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Semantics aside, I get their point about insects having body language and ways of nosily (even painfully) communicating their control-freak intentions to us in a way that we actually do right away figure out that they are saying "get out of our territory" to us. A wasp living aside human families while taking advantage of their outdoor barbecue food and whatever else opportunity offered might have at least some sense of when the human might be communicating their intentions to squash them, like they did to so many other bugs that they might have seen the humans squish.
I found that to be an excellent story. An example of why the Kurzweil AI forum is scientifically unique.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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