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Swarm

Definition

noun, plural: swarms

(1) A large number of insects or small organisms, particularly when they are in motion.

(2) A group of bees with a queen bee migrating to establish a new colony.

(3) A mass of people or animals especially when in turmoil.

verb

(1) To move as a swarm.

(2) To be overrun or thronged with multitude of organisms in motion, e.g. insects.

(3) To breed.

(4) To climb e.g. a tree or pole by gripping with arms and legs.


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Word origin: Old English swearm

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Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all

I am under the impression that the collective swarm picked the op to speak for them because the op has evolved some psychic abilities to talk to you.

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by david23
Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:28 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all
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Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all

And? Where is the demonstration of autonomous decision making? The intelligence of the swarm appear to be more related to that of the smart observer looking at the swarm, and that is a human (or a bot programmed by a human). No demonstration of autonomous thinking ...

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by canalon
Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:09 am
 
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Re: Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all

Hi canalon, Have you heard of swarm intelligence of internet? The field exploded in the last twenty years with the rise of computer science and the Internet. Swarm Theory lends itself perfectly to Artificial Intelligence. Computer learning ...

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by maunas
Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:22 am
 
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Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy

... most conservative and logical interpretation of the evidence and ends up squaring nicely with epigenetics, emergence theory, embodied cognition, swarm intelligence and with the general direction the behavioral sciences seem to be going. In the seventies I recognized that there was no such thing ...

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by KevinBehan
Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:24 pm
 
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The big Challenge in Biology

... evolution is always progressing. So now you have proteins with different dipole moments and charges, and you have nucleic acids forming. They swarm over each other. Matching charges to charges. Some connect, while others repel. Nothing is 'being degraded' at this point in time, but just transferred ...

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by kolean
Tue May 11, 2010 8:58 pm
 
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