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Subject: Re: Bird flight as an emergent property
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Date: 26 Oct 90 14:07:52 GMT
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From: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@uk.ac.ucl.cs>

> From: muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
>        Here are some observations that were triggered on reading a
> simulation about bird flight on one of the BBoards (Alife ?).

[...]
>   It is really an interesting question of whether
> birds  (in flight) show intelligent behaviour or are just purely 
> constrained by the physical laws of flight (wind streams etc).
> 
> Any comments ?

I believe that birds fly with a purpose, just as ants and termites organize
themsleves.

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