The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: DCPatriot on January 31, 2013, 09:52:27 pm
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Morphogenetic Fields, Telepathy and Science Set Free.
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“The morphogenetic field is a bit like a magnetic field
that organizes iron filings in particular patterns - so there is
a group field and every animal group has that.” - Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., Biochemist and Author
full article at: http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2057&category=Science (http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2057&category=Science)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
Starlings on Otmoor......
at 4:00.....a big WOW!
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Starlings on Otmoor
Hypnotic, amazing sight!
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Wonder how many birds fall to the ground with broken wings....from 'collisions'.
Does it provide a chance to cull the flock with 'survival of the fittest' maneuvers?
The reason...the narrator says earlier that when they eventually roost, the strongest males get the highest branches and the 'women' are shoved out to the edge of tiny branches.
......as it should be! {{{ducks}}} LOL
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Wonder how many birds fall to the ground with broken wings....from 'collisions'.
Does it provide a chance to cull the flock with 'survival of the fittest' maneuvers?
The reason...the narrator says earlier that when they eventually roost, the strongest males get the highest branches and the 'women' are shoved out to the edge of tiny branches.
......as it should be! {{{ducks}}} LOL
Not ducks, SWALLOWS, silly :chairbang:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
Starlings on Otmoor......
at 4:00.....a big WOW!
And that, folks, is a visual demonstration of how a free market creates a coherent, highly efficient, economy: the actions of each individual, pursuing only its own ends, and interacting only with its nearest neighbors form a coherent organism - a meta-organism, if you will - of which each individual is only faintly aware, if at all.
This is also, in a sense, a real-world example of the ant colony in Douglas Hofstadter's book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Or, even closer to home, a stripped-down example of how the human brain works: individual cells - neurons as well as the other cell-types that compose the brain - each pursuing only its own good, and responding primarily only to the actions of its immediate neighbors - albeit also to its more distant neighbors as, for example, various hormones released by specific collections of specialized cells, suffuse through the entire structure - but, as a meta-organism, giving rise to consciousness and thought; in short, to the "me" I believe myself to be.
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Wonder how many birds fall to the ground with broken wings....from 'collisions'.
Does it provide a chance to cull the flock with 'survival of the fittest' maneuvers?
The reason...the narrator says earlier that when they eventually roost, the strongest males get the highest branches and the 'women' are shoved out to the edge of tiny branches.
......as it should be! {{{ducks}}} LOL
Possibly, but I'm not sure how fit a species is if the guys kill off the girls by pushing the girls off the edges - makes the "birds and the bees" thingy a little harder to accomplish. On the other hand, the, uh ... "happy" ... boys are probably quite pleased with the situation.
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They don't 'push' the girls off the limbs.
It's just a way they deal with a 'pecking order' {pun intended}
Lions and wolves have a pecking order for eating. The strongest eat first. LOL!
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They don't 'push' the girls off the limbs.
It's just a way they deal with a 'pecking order' {pun intended}
Lions and wolves have a pecking order for eating. The strongest eat first. LOL!
True enough; but male lions are turned out of their maternal prides early, fend for themselves while bachelors, and get into some rather ugly fights with each other. That would seem to even out the apparent disparity. Also, lions need a large amount of territory to feed themselves, so the overall species is structured as a series of small social groups that rarely interact with each other - certainly not on a daily basis - so the degree to which the females as a group are pushed over the edge is much smaller than amongst the situation as described with the starlings.
On the other hand, the amount of resources, including the time and attention of a parent, needed to create an adult starling - one who can reproduce - is much less, on a per capita basis, than the resources needed to create an adult lion capable of reproducing, so the species as a whole suffers less from the loss of each individual member than the species of lions suffers from the loss of an individual member.