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From: pluto@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Mark E. P. Plutowski)
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Subject: Re: Adaptive vs. intelligent (was Re: "Intelligence")
Summary: Do bees self-organize?
Keywords: adaptation, self-organization, initiative
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Date: 13 Jun 89 23:49:11 GMT
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In article <13493@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> mv10801@uc.msc.umn.edu (Jonathan Marshall) writes:
>Intelligence is not just the ability to learn or adapt.  I would like
>to claim that intelligent organisms all share 3 fundamental 
>properties:
>	1. they can adapt (or learn),
>	2. they self-organize, and
>	3. they have initiative.

I can live with this list, although I think 
there is some overlap among the 3 items.
But whether or not it is minimal (or, complete,)
it provides bounding criteria for this 
discussion. 

OK, then, by the criteria stated above, 
(the Marshall Law ?) what is the smallest, 
or, most primitively evolved species which meets 
these criteria?  

Does a honeybee meet criteria #2 ?