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From: gt8554a@prism.gatech.EDU (JANAKIRAMAN,SHANKER)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Bird flight as an emergent property
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Date: 26 Oct 90 20:28:40 GMT
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  I remember one of my professors mentioning this in Fluid Mechanics
class.  As I remember, there are no fixed leaders.  The leading 
position is occupied by different birds in turns.  The overall formation
of the flock is in such a way that the energy consumed is minimised.
I guess this pertains to birds in migratory flights, as I have seen
birds flying in random many a times in the city skyline, as mentioned.
I leave it for the better informed AI people to speculate about
emergence. 

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