>From Terry:
> > The novel is called the "The Forever War".
>
> This is similar to the "Ender's Game" series without the happy ending
> for the invading hive mind species:
Thanks Terry,
I've been meaning to read Orson Scott Card's Ender Game novels. I know
there's a long series of Sagas pertain
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:36 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
wrote:
> The novel is called the "The Forever War".
This is similar to the "Ender's Game" series without the happy ending
for the invading hive mind species:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game
T
What I wanted to say it is that a hive can extend itself for hundreds of
meters or kilometers simultaneously.
Daniel Rocha wrote:
But there is a crucial difference between dividing in organs and in
> different individuals which is the ability to reach resources. A colony of
> cells cannot do muc
Indeed, this is fertile ground for speculative fiction, especially
science fiction. One author I particularly admire, an author who has
thought a great deal about the ramifications Daniel and Jed point out,
particularly how it might play out on the level of human "hive"
consciousness, is Joe Haldem
Daniel Rocha wrote:
But there is a crucial difference between dividing in organs and in
different individuals which is the ability to reach resources. A
colony of cells cannot do much other dividing tasks among themselves
but it cannot reach anything beyond its volume or it must count on
pass
But there is a crucial difference between dividing in organs and in
different individuals which is the ability to reach resources. A colony of
cells cannot do much other dividing tasks among themselves but it cannot
reach anything beyond its volume or it must count on passively on the
ecosystem's f
That's nifty. The robots are working together like ants in a colony,
with some specialization in roles. The capability of the whole swarm is
greater than that of the individual.
In my opinion, a colony of ants or bees should be though of as a single
biological entity, like an animal body.
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