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Bees clump to maintain homeostasis.Bees kill wasp invaders to the "body" by boiling them.Tell me, why do we fever? #beehiveiorism https://t.co/SJU3hwWj8f
A sneeze of bees. #beehiveiorism "How to Join a Wave: Decision-Making Processes..."https://t.co/e7tBO5pisQhttps://t.co/tZeq4s8GJ2
"Freaky dot patterns" of bees - waves propagating in a network. Shapes shifting in sand.https://t.co/SbFejWrovN https://t.co/FQQfwmXDXH
Dots_connecting.exehttps://t.co/Jcl7dtUNEt https://t.co/7vRXN4l0mb
The space between sand and stars.https://t.co/KZ8vNrVA9L
"has opened my focus upon things much greater than I."https://t.co/uASDSMTWHG
"// And so, here, alone, in bleak, bright, darkness, I sit, obeying, mindless, sheeplike, computing.I am a drone."https://t.co/THOlzUhW3U
"the importance of temporal networks in the analysis of information diffusion in online social networks."https://t.co/oT3zXq6HNd
“We are mere ants in a colony.” https://t.co/TGcnCVnfgn https://t.co/L6CF9T5zRe
Rhythms in a stream of collective conscious. Be like water.https://t.co/zdDyQOe1echttps://t.co/nZu34nIHfB
"previously thought dry particles lacked sufficient surface tension to form droplets" https://t.co/8xJ2YAnNOphttps://t.co/rijDRC21TL
Ants flow like brains think.How many neurons are in an ant colony?https://t.co/HL4tjaTIRF https://t.co/AjZFKnlNOS
"The developers are doing everything in their power to breath life into the game."https://t.co/ScL1tsL6kj
Ripples of communication within the swarm.https://t.co/tiCup5fyQWhttps://t.co/OxxBXg6pcD
Patterned chaotic rhythm.Ripples in agar.Beauty in mind's eye.Crystallizing networks.https://t.co/bSTfTBGckGhttps://t.co/bVOhq4CRlP
Slime Mold wondering what the world is like outside of it's petri dish. Analogous to simulation hypothesis?https://t.co/LNb3XhHlZG https://t.co/1kdTz4xCDo
Darmok & jalad at tanagra. Communicating through shared metaphor.Are we bags of mostly water?https://t.co/7ArxtYWzBC
"question is how something that doesn't have a brain is capable of solving [the] problem"https://t.co/chftNFve1vhttps://t.co/U4pzP2p7T0
"blob is capable of solving this problem relatively easy, literally jelly making smart decisions" = A Brain?https://t.co/chftNFve1v
A fresh brain: a slimy jumble of loosely coupled delicate spongy goop held by structural jelly. https://t.co/9xNe3mhULr
Homo DiscoideumDictyostelium Sapienshttps://t.co/0kZmbZeS7E
I wonder if neurons scream in surprise if a signal passes thru them.The booped bee goes 'whoop'.https://t.co/FMspamuraf https://t.co/k11eXP67rw
Listen to the recording of boop'd bees as they generate their hivesong.@newscientist is high quality forage:https://t.co/7OutVxQLmV
If orinthology is the study of birds, is murmurology the study of a bird's murmuration and hivesong?https://t.co/FxRlV05Svb
"eventually what I realized is that: I was seeing these recurring patterns that were showing up again and again..."https://t.co/1wWys9Qk8d
A scream of bees.https://t.co/D2yrqPnsJ5
This just happened by accident, so I made it happen on purpose.https://t.co/FFk5BiiiQZ
Given pail shape X, sand qty Y, mix rate M, particle size ratio α.Solve freq f, power W, time T, for 100% gradationhttps://t.co/4KDxJIhdMA
Life as consequence of Rivest-Shamir-Wagner timelock puzzles. Intrinsic of universal information / entropy.https://t.co/hMtw4TsJeV
Sand as a metaphor for biological processes - Plate tectonics theory, but literally construed at a granular scale.https://t.co/wTvFBNgeDT
"the mess we're in" -> the mess we live within.https://t.co/8ODuvlscAz
Water + sand = mess.https://t.co/loNOzPHyjQ https://t.co/cxL5AmRG22
Stop for a moment.Try to contemplate how bees tell stories about cause & consequence.How might they track time?.https://t.co/9XSVeVuRJN
Are you done yet? You can start again."Fatigue is a Brain-Derived Emotion" (h/t @naval) https://t.co/nE4I7XCjXx
@naval Do you know what time it is without looking at a clock?https://t.co/umLKwt550I
If fatigue is an emotion used to track whole body homeostasis,what might rage be?https://t.co/gk5ICz4AKB
Do bees get happy when you pet them?https://t.co/s91QEcsSzG
(the answer is yes, but only their antennae. Also it might depend on the *breed*.) https://t.co/BAm7YNxUWQ
Sand is goodhttps://t.co/FlsSWX8MoT
Here's a video of a wasp playing in the sand: https://t.co/FVdXZAjrGz
"his branch of science, physics, is treated differently from other branches—and how perhaps that isn't right."https://t.co/v4UJi2dJyD https://t.co/tx0fn0e23V
"…some explicit notion of information that takes it beyond the non-equilibrium dissipative structures-type process."https://t.co/H5qWzXb74O
It's physics based agents all the way down.https://t.co/D7jfZIrgeY https://t.co/FjrRNaL7KW
"Cutting-edge research that suggests small and large-scale biological collectives behave similarly"https://t.co/vot64HKc7X
By framing things as living breathing entities, it changes how look at them.What perspectives are you missing?https://t.co/PubRd7ls7v
"...the vibrational signals are used in the context of foraging and recruitment."https://t.co/xnkVVznpyDhttps://t.co/gqXjQTS1zQ
"13 Hz [...] drumming signals and the mechanism of long distance propagation of drumming signals" [1999]https://t.co/tbj6wTAjX3
"The evolution of stridulatory communication in ants, revisited"https://t.co/S4La1FNTvU
"It can be noticed that at 12 Hz the signal amplitude drops offsignificantly with increasing depth" #fluidicshttps://t.co/iysq6p3LSR https://t.co/n5gWCtiMe3
Buzzing, trilling, drilling. Communication.https://t.co/THOlzUhW3U
Brain chemistry as latching let-off valves that create long term behavioral cycles as a form of abstract fluidics.https://t.co/JoCevOe1Lo
Living at the edge of chaos. Screaming at the boundary until it give way.Stealing Entropy?https://t.co/I35M8foSo4 https://t.co/tBfkBvJ0YV
Be the negative kelvin material you want to see in the world.https://t.co/jtZN9qq5jJ
The mess we're in.Locally reversing entropy.Stealing fire from the gods.Staring down Moloch.https://t.co/ekqdbvwgTv
The void playing games with itself.https://t.co/JwUzfW5VZP https://t.co/0uS52pyHUY
The self-schismatic void theory of the universe.https://t.co/4WYX9TzlwM https://t.co/482rvkRpB2
How does one resist Moloch?Asking for a friend...https://t.co/ue1pdrlMN3
Dancing till the glass breaks.https://t.co/TpZSxsmTlL
Finding paths, vacillating between red queens & red kings.Walk the line. Boundaries between the light and darkness.https://t.co/vtfHDiRZMW https://t.co/3sC0hcrlfF
An information theory of Autopoiesis?https://t.co/VDG3sAMWaU https://t.co/VYm9a3f3GV
AL is the new AI."There have been advances in all of these problems since 2000, but all of them remain open."https://t.co/aHloKSqOIC
"algorithms that shape our economy must be rewritten [...] to create a more human-centered future." #beehiveiorismhttps://t.co/Wm1QolVXd0
Is our cultural immune system over-reacting, or is there a parasite in our midst?What is killing us?https://t.co/eXpGr6FVoI
The hive is burning itself alive.https://t.co/HJVzKiRJP1
Disruption of our signaling networks.https://t.co/H2pVCVDI6N
Something is wrong. What is it? Why are we burning?https://t.co/xNuPVJLE7B
What are we missing?Why are we burning?https://t.co/BjNj3jupdQ
Stoking the fire higher to drive Moloch from the darkness.https://t.co/JudR2sAPag
We have a germ theory;we invented penicillin to fight off infectious disease. We have a meme theory; we don't have penicillin to fight off infectious ideas.So we burn ourselves alive, self-quarantining, splitting into tribes to avoid the plague. Just like we did in the past.
Mass psychogenic illness: communal level version of a how the body boils out contagious infection. If a group is able to all get nausea and a fever at the the same time it would limit the effect of a toxic agent in their food supply.Are we poisoned. Are we poisoning ourselves?
The lowly hermit - estranged from society - not altogether unwillingly.Depression makes us recede from each other.Avoiding not just toxic disease, but toxic ideas.A symptom of something larger?https://t.co/Zts6Rs9B3a
"What does it take to make a social bee?"https://t.co/OxfcWItHtW https://t.co/yY7xehsa2q
"...But 90% of the studies are looking at them in isolation because academia at large has a massive silo between biology and social psychology."I happen to sit at that boundary, petting bees and sneezing dogs.https://t.co/qNP0D1mpcf