Social Intelligence and Self-Organization in Bacteria

[kram1032]

http://tamar.tau.ac.il/~eshel/EBJG/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_IQ_Score_of_Bacteria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paenibacillus

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[Weber]

Beautiful example.

[M Benesi]

  And now for a counter example.  The me meme. 

[DarkBeam]

Simply fantastic art ... by a bacterium! I can't believe it

[kram1032]

M Benesi, did you add a picture there? Because if so, I can't see it. All it shows me is text.

[Alef]

Funny, I alredy shared this.
http://www.fractalforums.com/fractals-in-nature/bacterias-have-life-too/
Probably becouse of a logical fallacy, appeal to authority it wasn't noticed

 

[kram1032]

Oh, you predated me by a year.
Btw, since you mentioned that: A simple L-system couldn't context-sensitively bend away from existing paths, etc.
L-systems mostly are thought of as systems to mimick natural shapes. Usually, the actual encoding in lifeforms is done differently. They just happen to result in the same outcomes.

One of the biggest "problems" with L-systems is when they overlap and generate the same pattern some natural thing grows in, however, the natural thing clearly can not overlap in the same way, thus complicating the rules that stand behind it.

[M Benesi]

M Benesi, did you add a picture there? Because if so, I can't see it. All it shows me is text.

'Twas a jest, kram.    Counter example of intelligent pattern forming beings : me...   

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[kram1032]

lol. I was just making sure, 'cause stuff like that happened before already. - typically when the image host went down or something