From: "Richard" (rcarlson@olympus.net)
Date: July 31, 2005 10:33:06 AM PDT
To: rjon@vzavenue.net
Subject: Re: Four Functions Chart
Reply-To: postaum2005@sriaurobindocenter-la.com

I
also think this is a "second tier" function of the chart, which if I
understand it correctly, imparts this type behavior to birds and
mammals. It seems to me however, that in bees , birds, and most mammals
who herd, this intelligence is not a function of the individual animal
but rather proper to the "group mind", which I believe is primarily
operative in most animal species, (including humans to a lesser extent
but perhaps to a greater extent than which we would be comfortable in
admitting) and that this dynamic when it comes to flocking birds or
bees seeking honey, seems not to directly fall directly into the
categories given in the chart. However, since I don't have the text
which supports the chart, I am not sure how it is ultimately addressed
by Don.

rich

ps. a great flick related to this subject is
titled "winged migration" which has the most amazing photography of
birds of all continents in annual migration

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Hemsell" (rodhemsell@yahoo.com) To: (rcarlson@olympus.net)
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Four Functions Chart

The
example of the bees' anticipation of the location sequence is a perfect
illustration of "conditioned learning" in the second tier of Don's
chart. And it is identical to what happens on the animal level all the
time, but as a more complex function of what is called intelligent will
in the individual animal.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS BEHAVIOR IS EXACTLY WHAT WE MEAN BY "INTELLIGENCE".