RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 25, 2015 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 4:43 pm by Heywood.)
(January 25, 2015 at 2:07 pm)StuW Wrote: A group of jellyfish is a Smack not a swarm. :-p
Jellyfish don't actually swarm. The aggregation of them is usually the result of blooming. Some jellyfish actually do come together because they use a sun compass and in certain geographic layouts this causes them to all move to basically the same place. But this behavior isn't flocking or schooling. Flocking or schooling isn't organisms moving to the same location. Flocking or schooling is organisms moving in unison. Jellyfish do not move in unison just because they can often be found aggregated.
I skimmed your article and will comment on it later. Kind of busy today.
(January 25, 2015 at 2:07 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Such forms of emergent self-order occur without intellect all the time. Just look at the wiki entry for a list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
Can emergent self-order occur without intellect? Yes. But that is not the same question as "Can flocking occur without intellect".
Is it your position that all emergent self-order can happen without intellect? If so I would encourage you to examine this position.
