GaryGaulin
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Getting out of the way of an approaching shock zone requires a good temporal sense of what will soon happen, in the future. This was added by alternating between current angular time (by default room angle is from 0 to 15) and the next angular time frame ahead. The places that will soon become a shock hazard periodically become a place to avoid. This sequential on and off signaling causes a (over time) temporal decision to be made. The same works for swarming bees. Scouts that found a possible new place to build a hive are one at a time allowed to dance out the location. This way each nesting option is one at a time considered in their actions, instead of all bees swarming to the first place found or to different locations.
http://io9.com/5866215....n-brain
There is no circuit deciding which possibility is best. In this case the virtual critter cannot divide and go separate ways. An appropriate action is taken just by repeatedly presenting (in any sequence) what must be acted upon.
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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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