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> The different threads are spilling over into one another, and so I am separating the posts into their respective themes. The following is all that remains of the insect thread. We shall then revert to your theory of evolution.
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> dhw: [i]The only difference you can find between bee/ant form of learning and ours (apart from time and scale), is your rigid belief that in their case, all these processes are the result of vague algorithms, which is your posh-sounding word for what you used to call a 3.8-billion-year-old programme for every undabbled life form and natural wonder in life's history. [/i]
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> DAVID: [i]And the comparison in humans is the inborn guide it language, however it works, remember? Guided algorithms exist.
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> I don’t know why you are trying to dodge the issue by bringing in human language. Humans learn their language just as bees and ants learn their language – from contact with and imitation of those who use the language! All life forms are born with the ABILITY to learn their language, and that requires autonomous perception, information-processing, communication, decision-making etc.   Why do you think feral children learn to speak wolf language until they live with humans?